http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/ Engadget Comments for Seagate leaks 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/Apr 21st 2006 2:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/Apr 21st 2006 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
Time for Ryan to learn the difference between bits and bytes. The speed is 3 Gbps (gigabits per second) which is about 8 times slower than 3 GBps (gigabytes per second). The marketing teams do this to us on purpose of course since 3 Gbps looks better than 375 MBps even though they are just two ways of saying the same thing.]]>Apr 21st 2006 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
hopefully this will drive the cost/gb of 500gig drives down to a more reasonable level. with 250gig drives being 50 cents per gig(cad), and 500gig drives being nearly 75 cents er gig, the 250giggers still look prety tasty to those with the case space]]>Apr 21st 2006 3:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/Apr 21st 2006 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://matsu.blogdns.net/?p=58]]>Apr 21st 2006 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/Apr 21st 2006 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/Apr 21st 2006 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/Apr 21st 2006 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
Anyway, Torontoguy brings up a good point. What backup solutions will potential buyers of this disk implement? And, with this much space, what kind of data would you store on it? If you filled it with torrented movies then I guess a backup solution isn't that important, given the value of the data. But, you'd be a fool to archive all of your family's home movies on this drive and not have it backed up somewhere. Are there cheap enough tape backup systems that can accommodate more than 500GB?]]>Apr 21st 2006 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
Nice.]]>Apr 21st 2006 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/I think I'll just grab a quad of the 250's, as long as they have the 16mb buffer w/SATAII. but shiznit, 3tB? (*people start torrenting entire TV stations*)]]>Apr 21st 2006 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/Apr 21st 2006 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
Also, 750GB is nothing to those in the creative fields (digital arts, film, etc.). Not everyone is a hobbyist filling up their computer with torrent flicks; some really do need this kind of fast space for work.

And for backup, you get another drive (or more). My business has a four-tiered backup (a RAID onsite for the main Mac and three other drives which rotate off-site). Most of my clients have ditched tape and CD/DVD backup in favor of just using other external drives, which are comparatively cheap and a lot easier to use in terms of backup execution.]]>Apr 21st 2006 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/Apr 21st 2006 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/]]>Apr 21st 2006 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
hehe.]]>Apr 21st 2006 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
I know it took this long to release the 500GB drives because I was waiting the entire time. I have 4 of these in a RAID5 array. RAID is what I use as a backup to protect against a drive failure. If one drive fails, I swap it out with a replacement, the array rebuilds, and I never have to even turn my computer off. (Of course, if two drives fail at the same time, I'm screwed, but statistics suggest this is pretty rare.)]]>Apr 21st 2006 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
Best, Ryan]]>Apr 21st 2006 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/who the hell uses CHKDSK anymore?... seriously.

#18/carlton:
thanks for the RAID primer... not so seriously.
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For those of us in the arts, this thing is heaven!! I have negative scas of up to 500 megs.....and psd files of up to 250. Heck, my fractal prints are up to 1 gig each. This'd be a great little tool. and its so small itll fit in my desktop.

wonder what the price is gonna be....]]>Apr 22nd 2006 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/Apr 23rd 2006 7:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
Flash memory capacity per dollar seems to double every year. 2gb flash drives seem to be running around $100 these days. That would imply:

2010: 32gb for $100. Many laptops will eliminate hard drives.

2015: 1TB for $100. It may be cheaper for movie and record companies to sell you drives with lots of programming and have you pay to unlock items you want.

2020: 32TB for $100. Will anyone be making hard drives any more?

2025: 1 petabyte for $100.

]]>Apr 26th 2006 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/
Itz all disposable anyway, remember you cant take it with you. Though I do want MORE!!!!!

Jon]]>Apr 27th 2006 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/21/seagate-leaks-750gb-barracuda-7200-10/May 2nd 2006 5:36PM