Seagate Renames Barracuda Line as Desktop HDD, Adds 4TB

[exfileme]

Seagate has renamed its Barracuda series while adding a 4 TB model.

Seagate Renames Barracuda Line as Desktop HDD, Adds 4TB : Read more

 

[A Bad Day]

It also delivers the highest average data rate on the market today, achieving 160 MB/s via a SATA 3 (6 Gb/s) interface while saving 35-percent in power consumption over the competition, the company said.

Integrated into the new Desktop HDD Series is Seagate's own OptiCache technology, promising a boost in overall performance up to 45-percent by "exploiting" big 64 MB cache sizes. The unit's 1 TB/platter technology reduces complexity inside the drive itself, Seagate added, greatly improving storage reliability and reducing failure rate.

I demand benchmarks to prove it.

Also, the fastest HDD? Surely they meant for 7,200 RPM HDDs.

 

[wannabepro]

[strike]But can it play Crysis?[/strike]

Damn, I hate when people comment that..

 

[blazorthon]

I'm pretty sure that there are are least like two or three other 7.2KRPM hard drives that reach around 160MB/s via SATA 3 (not that it really matters since even SATA2 is not a bottle-neck for that and even SATA 1 is only a small bottleneck for that).

 

[blazorthon]

Also, 64MB caches are far from being new in hard drives. Do they mean something else by "exploiting" like maybe some better caching algorithms?

 

[xkm1948]

1tb platter surely is nice. Come on WD, time to wake up.

 

[luc2k]

How come the 2TB drive has 3 disks?

 

[Soda-88]

I hate stupid 'it can store x photos, y hours of video and z songs' measuring.

 

[danwat1234]

5 watts idle power? Impressive for 7200RPM, wait for benches though

 

[Guest]

1,000,000 songs? I hate those comparisons, we're not in 1997 any more and people have moved on from 128 kbps quality. How many 320 kbps or FLAC songs can it store, hm?

 

[Soul_keeper]

How come the 2TB drive has 3 disks?

Some of the older ones have 3 platters, the newer ones have 2.
Amazon had a lot of users complaining about this, after taking them off their site for awhile I believe they label them now. Most the old stock should be sold or on the resale market now.
Seagate splits their drive manufacturing between china and thailand. Usually just firmware version differences, if that, now.

 

[Soul_keeper]

that first line was a quote ....

 

[antilycus]

The WORST, by a long shot, hard drive manufacturer on the planet. If you want to loose valuable data do 1 of 2 things 1) buy a seagate hard drive or 2) by an HP, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba laptop or computer. Guess what they use on the inside, crappy intel motherboards followed up with even crappier seagate hard drives. I've had, in the past 5 years over 60 fail and EVERY SINGLE ONE was a seagate. Guess how many Western Digitals i've had fail over the same period? 1 and it was ata and it broke last month (to let you know how old and long it lasted). Western Digital and Hitachi are the only reliable brands worth investing in.

 

[MaXimus421]

Seagate is no worse or better than WD. Both make garbage HDDs. It's just how it is right now.

 

[sickofthis00]

[citation][nom]MaXimus421[/nom]Seagate is no worse or better than WD. Both make garbage HDDs. It's just how it is right now.[/citation]

I agree. But toshiba seems to be making a rise (I guess they saw how seagate and wd were making overpriced products, and decided to compete to win). I was all for hitachi before, but would go to toshiba now, or ssd if hdd can be avoided.

 

[anti-painkilla]

[citation][nom]luc2k[/nom]How come the 2TB drive has 3 disks?[/citation]

The probably have a lot of 700GB platters lying around.

[citation][nom]Soda-88[/nom]I hate stupid 'it can store x photos, y hours of video and z songs' measuring.[/citation]

Agreed, they should rate it in hours of 1080p porn.