News item: Seagate announced 750GB SATA drive!!

[Stan Shankman]

(April 26, 2006) Seagate announced the latest salvo in the large drive wars:
the Barracuda 7200.10 drive in 200-750GB capacities. This means that heavy
downloaders and home video geeks around the world will be able to put 3/4 TB
data single drives in their desktops. Using 4GB as the standard measure of
a 2 hour DVD movie, that means that the drive can hold almost 200 movies in
storage or hundreds of thousands of MP3s or pictures. All I have to say is
that you really need to own a camcorder or use your broadband 24/7 to
utilize 750GB.

Seagate's 7200.10 drives support 8-16MB caches, Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
and up to 3.0Gbps SATA throughput, so they are fast. Seagate uses
Perpendicular technology to stuff more data on to the same number of
platters as the previous generation 7200.9 drives. They're expected to ship
next week, so keep your eyes tuned to the online retailers to see who is
first on your block with a 3TB four drive RAID 0 array. The 750GB version
will retail for about $590.

 

[Mike Redrobe]

Seagate uses Perpendicular technology to stuff more data on to the
same number of platters as the previous generation 7200.9 drives.

1TB single drives before year end?

 

[Timothy Daniels]

(April 26, 2006) Seagate announced the latest salvo
in the large drive wars: the Barracuda 7200.10 drive
in 200-750GB capacities. This means that heavy
downloaders and home video geeks around the world
will be able to put 3/4 TB data single drives in their
desktops. Using 4GB as the standard measure of
a 2 hour DVD movie, that means that the drive can
hold almost 200 movies in storage...

Does DVD-ripping software come with it?


*TimDaniels*

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

(April 26, 2006) Seagate announced the latest salvo in the large drive wars:
the Barracuda 7200.10 drive in 200-750GB capacities. This means that heavy
downloaders and home video geeks around the world will be able to put 3/4 TB
data single drives in their desktops. Using 4GB as the standard measure of
a 2 hour DVD movie, that means that the drive can hold almost 200 movies in
storage or hundreds of thousands of MP3s or pictures. All I have to say is
that you really need to own a camcorder or use your broadband 24/7 to
utilize 750GB.

Seagate's 7200.10 drives support 8-16MB caches, Native Command Queuing (NCQ)

and up to 3.0Gbps SATA throughput, so they are fast.

Yeah, 3 times as fast as the ATA-100 version, obviously.

 

[Peter]

Does DVD-ripping software come with it?

Yes it does. But they stopped supplying BackItUp-to-DVD. I wonder why.

 

[&]

The 750GB version will retail for about $590.

NewEgg's got them for about $499.

Expect them to drop in price.