An In-Depth Look At Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda

theraindog writes "More than a year and a half after the first terabyte hard drives became widely available, Seagate has reached the next storage capacity milestone. With 1.5 terabytes, the latest Barracuda 7200.11 serves up 50% more capacity than its peers, and at a surprisingly affordable $0.12 per gigabyte. But Seagate's decision to drop new platters into an old Barracuda shell may not have been a wise one. The Tech Report's in-depth review of the world's first 1.5TB hard drive shows that while the latest 'cuda is screaming fast in synthetic throughput drag races, poor real world write speeds ultimately tarnish its appeal."

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An In-Depth Look At Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda:

[Warll]

I didn't RTFA but I can guess it:

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Re:Capacity is hardly news anymore

[MightyYar]

How reliable is the thing?

Buy me one and I can promise status updates.

Re:fp?

[thepotoo]

I swear, if you were any more dense, you'd fall within your own Schwarzschild radius, become a black hole, and we wouldn't have to deal with you anymore.

Hey, everybody's thinking it, I'm just saying it. ;)

More like..

[m651612763]

More like a milestone-and-a-half.

Re:Capacity is hardly news anymore

[Anonymous Coward]

I've managed to fill 2/3rds of my 1TB storage drive already.

Your wrist must be tired!

Re:Write speed

[tgd]

If you need a 1.5 TB swapfile, I suggest you start clicking some of those X's on your windows.

Re:Write speed

[Belial6]

Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience.

That is just true. So from now on, it should be written...

Lack of speed can be overcome. In the worst case by patience.

--Znork