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The Seagate Barracuda has
long been at the forefront of hard drive performance and reliability.
With the 7200.10 series, Seagate takes things a step further;
first with groundbreaking 500 GB drives and now with the worlds first
750 GB capacity hard drive. With nearly a Terabyte of storage at your
disposal, what will you do with all that space? Well here at the club,
we'll take two!
There is nothing particularly sexy
about a Seagate Barracuda drive. No fancy lights or see through
windows. Still just holding almost a Terabyte and a half's worth of
storage is some what akin to buying that first Gig of RAM. Awesome.
Seagate isn't just talking a good
game, they are backing it up with an industry leading 5-year warranty.
The 7200.10 Barracuda family runs from 200GB to 750GB insuring there is
a drive to meet your storage needs and budget. The .10 suffix indicates
this is the tenth generation Barracuda resulting from ten years of
research.
Lets put all that space into
perspective with a little help from
Wikipedia:
Terabytes in use
- The U.S.
Library of Congress has claimed it contains
approximately 20 terabytes of text.
- The shipping company
UPS has approximately 474 terabytes of
information in its databases.
- 18 minutes of
UHDV consumes 3.5 terabytes of data.
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Personal computers and related devices such as
TiVos containing a terabyte or more of storage
space have recently become practical using
combinations of high-capacity mass-market
hard drives.
As of November 2005, common commercial hard
drives exceeded 500 gigabytes in size, so storage
capacity totalling a terabyte or more can be reached
using as few as 2 to 3 hard disks, at a street cost
of as little as
USD $450, down from over USD $1000 in
2003. (source:
www.newegg.com)
By now everyone should be somewhat
familiar with Serial ATA. The Seagate Barracuda is using SATA II
combined with NCQ (Native Command Queuing) to provide up to 300 Mbytes/s
transfer rates. NCQ allows multiple commands to be outstanding in the
drive at the same time. The result is the ability to have the drive
dynamically reschedule or reorder operations to increase drive
efficiency. Combine that with the 16 MB onboard cache and your new high
capacity drive is performing just like a respectable high performance
drive.
7200.10 Family Features:
- Highest capacity in a single drive - up to
750 GB of digital storage space
- The first 3.5" drive to support Vertically
stored data bits, enabling industry leading capacity in existing
standard form factors
- A range of options from 8 or 16 MB cache to
interface choices of ATA/100, SATA 1.5Gb/s or SATA 3Gb/s to meet
your specific needs
- Seagate SoftSonic motor enables whisper quiet
operation
- Enhanced G-Force Protection defends against
handling damage
- Unprecedented 5-Year warranty
- Family capacity from 200GB to 750 GB
- Maximum sustained data transfer rate: 78 Mb/s
- Operating shock: 68 Gs
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750
GB Specifications:
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Model |
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Brand |
Seagate |
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Series |
Barracuda 7200.10 |
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Model |
ST3750640AS |
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Performance |
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Capacity |
750GB |
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Cache |
16MB |
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RPM |
7200 RPM |
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Average Seek Time |
11ms |
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Average Latency |
4.16ms |
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Interface |
SATA 3.0Gb/s NCQ |
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Physical Spec |
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Form Factor |
3.5" |
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Features |
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SATA 3Gb/s with NCQ |
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2.7 bels idle, 3.0
bels seek acoustics |
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68 Gs operating
shock |
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300 Gs non-operating
shock |
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Warranty |
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Manufacturer
Warranty |
5 Years |
The actual Barracuda white paper is a laundry list
of boring stats. For the brave you can access it
here. The rest of us are headed off to test these bad boys.
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