Seagate Announces 1.5 Terabyte HD

[Lemur]

Finally, a disc big enough to hold all of my educational software and scans of cute puppies. Seagate's popping out the 1.5 terabyte drive for desktops in August.

More is always better, 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.

[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.

[Whacker]

I guess that explains where your handle comes from.

Actually, you aren't far off. The... err... "concept" is correct, but the means is not, it actually came from me being a huge smart 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?


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. No idea what relationship the new drive's price might have to that ...