Seagate Announces 1.5 Terabyte HD

[Lemur]

Finally, a disc big enough to hold all of my educational software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_pornography) and scans of cute puppies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_porn). Seagate's popping out the 1.5 terabyte drive for desktops in August.

More is always better (http://www.hothardware.com/News/Seagates_Latest_Desktop_HDD_Has_15TB_Capacity/), right?


Seagate's latest desktop-class hard drive, the Barracuda 7200.11, will be available in a 1.5TB capacity starting in August. The 3.5-inch drive is made up of four 375GB platters and has a 7,200-rpm rotational speed. It has a 3Gb/second SATA interface, or 1.5Gb/second using Native Command Queuing (NCQ). Seagate also claims that the new 1.5TB drive supports a sustained data rate of up to 120MB/second. This represents a slight improvement in performance over the existing drives in Seagate's Barracuda 7200.11 series, which have stated sustained data rates between 105 and 115MB/second--with the 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 on the slow end of that scale at 105MB/second. While many of the existing drives in the 7200.11 series have both 16MB and 32MB cache versions, the 1.5TB will likely only be available with a 32MB cache--similar to its 1TB sibling.

[Whacker]

Pfft. That's not nearly enough to store all of my por^H^H^H educational software and nudie pics scans of cute puppies. I'm thinking 5 drives in a RAID5 array would be best.

[Xiahou]

Pfft. That's not nearly enough to store all of my por^H^H^H educational software and nudie pics scans of cute puppies. I'm thinking 5 drives in a RAID5 array would be best.
Just to be safe, you might wanna make that RAID 5+1. :yes:

[TinCow]

Pfft. That's not nearly enough to store all of my por^H^H^H educational software and nudie pics scans of cute puppies. I'm thinking 5 drives in a RAID5 array would be best.

I guess that explains where your handle comes from. :eyebrows:

[Whacker]

I guess that explains where your handle comes from. :eyebrows:

Actually, you aren't far off. :sweatdrop: The... err... "concept" is correct, but the means is not, it actually came from me being a huge smart:daisy: playing Action Quake 2 back in the day. My other primary nick that I still use to this day was already taken, so I had to think up some alternative, Whacker it was. After awhile I started using Whacker as my online gaming alias and my other nick for general chat/forum/irc type stuff. Fascinating, huh? :Zzzz:


At any rate. Do we know how much this bad daddy is going to run new? I just checked and didn't see any preliminary listings on N00begg yet.

[Lemur]

Article sez "available in August," and that could be anywhere in the month, so we're a ways off yet. Price is TBA, but their 1 terabyte drive is currently selling for $190 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148274). No idea what relationship the new drive's price might have to that ...