Review of Seagate's 750Gb Hard Drive

Zoxed writes "The Tech Report have a comprehensive review of Seagate's Barracuda-7200.10 'perpendicular' drive, including a primer on the technology. They ran performance tests against 10 other drives, checking the noise and power consumption levels. The Seagate fared pretty well, even on cost (per Gigabyte)." From the article: "Perpendicular recording does wonders for storage capacity, and thanks to denser platters, it can also improve drive performance. Couple those benefits with support for 300 MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates, Native Command Queuing, and up to 16 MB of cache, and the Barracuda 7200.10 starts to look pretty appealing. Throw in an industry-leading five year warranty and a cost per gigabyte that's competitive with 500 GB drives, and you may quickly find yourself scrambling to justify a need for 750 GB of storage capacity."

The justification for more space

[Dude McDude]

One word: PORN

Big HUGE warnings

[VincenzoRomano]

1. The more data you pack in a volume, the higher the risk for data loss due to mechanical breaks.
2. 7 100 Gb disks (that would cost less than USD 430 [techreport.com]) will be at least 7 times more reliable than the 7200.10 with possibile similar performances.

Re:Now all I need...is a backup perhaps?

[WidescreenFreak]

You've never heard of this thing called a "backup", I take it?

Seriously, there is no reason whatsoever for anyone to lose any data. Even if it means forking over the money for a tape backup and tapes, if you lose any data due to a drive failure you have no one to blame but yourself. If it's important, build a RAID. If its critical, build a RAID with some kind of tape or other backup.

Yeah, I know, this is "Well, no shit, Sherlock" territory, but it always irks me when someone talks about losing data because there's no real need for losing any data, particularly if it's important.

Of course, if getting that data back is a simple task of downloading (again) from alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica, that's a different situation. :)

only 187 million times cheaper per bit

[Ancient_Hacker]

$413 sounds a bit pricey, but then I thought back to my fiurst disk srive, a DEC DF-32. Only 32,768 12-bit words!

Price I don't know, definitely no less than $5000 of 1972 dollars. That's about 78 bits per dollar.

This new disk is about 14634146341.463414634146341463415 bits per dollar that's an improvement of about 187 million times .

but wait those old dolalrs were at least 4 times more studly than today's, so that's about 600 million times better over the last 34 years. An annual rate of about 183% !

Re:The justification for more space

[lakin]

Well duh, you dont own one of these drives yet!

its funny...

[Connie_Lingus]

..but those 5-year warrenties don't really help you much if you FORGET THE BACKUP THE FRIGGING DRIVE!

customer: "my drive failed...i would like it replaced"

company: "sure..here is your new one!"

customer: "uhhh...what happened to my data?"

Re:The justification for more space

[I Like Pudding]

I wonder if there is a correlation between hard drive size and blindness

Re:Myth boxes and the like

[brianosaurus]

Geeks fit into hard drives like goldfish fit in bowls; they grow to fill the space...

Re:its funny...

[Slashcrap]

customer: "uhhh...what happened to my data?"

BOFH: "You will have to re-enter it all manually. And remember that hard drives store data in binary, so you will have to use only the 0 and 1 keys."

Re:The justification for more space

[Skroggtar]

I must question why one would actually enjoy listening to porn music. What a silly world we live in.

Re:The justification for more space

[ericdano]

I meant Porn & Music not Porn Music.........yikes.

No no....no no. Well. No. Absolutely not. Porn Music no. Porn AND Music, yes.

Magneto

[OYAHHH]

Do,

You suppose this drive uses technology similar to that Magneto uses to achieve all of his Mutant feats?

750 GB

[Mister Jimm]

Men are like gas, they fill the space available. -- Red Green

Re:Big HUGE warnings

[Monster_Juice]

If you spent $775 on 71 megs you would remember it also.

Re:The justification for more space

[Doctor Faustus]

I must question why one would actually enjoy listening to porn music.
Do you mean music from porn movies, or audio porn? The latter is good to work out to; somehow, I find I don't get tired nearly as fast when I'm turned on.

Re:The justification for more space

[herauthon]

i am trying to dig up this feeling i had from that moment that i bought my first harddisk of the enormous cap of 32Mb (MFM !) this feeling...feeling... more then a feeling..

Re:The justification for more space

[creepynut]

Do your coworkers know about this? ;)

Re:Get perpendicular :D

[tjw]

What happens when someone can have locally an mp3 playlist that rivals that of a local radio station? You mean 20 songs?

Re:The justification for more space

[pete6677]

While watching big sweaty guys lift weights.

Re:That's a lot of DVDs

[hackstraw]

Mirroring provides redundancy, but not a backup. If anything happens to the box itself or the building it's stored in (e.g. a fire), you're still screwed.

You're right. Its so important to have offsite backups for reliability.

Think about it. If you're diligent about it, and take offsite backups from your house to your work or neighbors or whatnot, when you're house burns down you can still have all of your MP3s, TV shows, and everything!

The bitch is that you forgot to do redundancy and offsite backups of your couch, TV, computer, stereo, wife, kids, and pets.