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Seagate unleashes a 750GB sata drive
Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 5:08 pm
by b-man1
http://www.seagate.com/products/personal/barracuda.html
wow.
it'll be interesting to see what the sizes are after the perpendicular technology is in full force...
Re: Seagate unleashes a 750GB sata drive
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 11:47 am
by rogue
I'm sure there are 1 TB drives on the horizon..can't wait
Also, here's an Anandtech article/review of the new Seagate 750gb drive - it contains a well-written explanation of the perpendicular drive technology:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2760
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 6:39 pm
by theophilusmousse
I remember skimming over that article in wal-mart while waiting or someone. I hadn't realized that it was that close to being comercially viable. Just immagine the effect this could have in servers, could reasonably end up having 4tb arrays, consisting of a small handfull of drives!
On the other hand, just one good head crash, and immagine the amount of data that could be lost, instead of a couple bad blocks, you could lose quite a bit. (here I am talking as if I actually know what I'm talking about...hehe)
Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 6:41 pm
by eGoCeNTRoNiX
Well, the big thing is that with drives of that size it will be easier to run a mirrored array and still have a lot of storage in the array.