Seagate's Barracuda 750GB drive reviewed
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Apr 27th 2006 10:21AM
posted Apr 27th 2006 10:21AM
No doubt you
remember the leaked specs on
Seagate's new Baracuda 7200.10 series of perpendicular
drives. Well, Seagate just made it officially, uh, official and PC World has a review for ya just to prove it. Now, we
already knew it would be the biggest 3.5-incher around, but PC World tells us that it might also be the best. In a
"first look" of the SATA/300, 16MB cache version, PCW found the new 'cuda to scream across the spectrum of
tests ranking it first overall among the bevy of 7200rpm spinners they've tested, bested only be the 10,000rpm Raptor
X. Expect the 750GB model they tested to hit the streets for about $590, or $0.79/GB, which isn't really that bad.
The best part is, these should be about $300 by the end of the year, which will make them available to be purchased by most consumers.
I'll take 4 and make the world's fastest three terabyte array!
That is a really big drive
Sorry Phil, I think HP took that crown with their 9000-series of server. :(
yes, this would be nice to have...but i can only imagine much it would suck if the drive crashed filled with data.
I'll take a 4 drive 2.2TB RAID 5 array, thanks!!
Man o man, all i need now is $1000 to build a sick 1.5TB sata RAID, with only four drives!
God damn i wish i had a better job...
2,6, & 7
You and me both brothas, you and me both...
Especially you 7....
Ghost ride the WHIP....
When will the first terabyte drive hit the market?
I wonder if they actually took the time to fill a good portion of it with fragmented data (e.g. a ginormous windows registry) and see just how well it performed?
Buy them in pairs, folks...
They're equivalent to like 160 DVD-Rs in terms of data. You need to buy two and keep RAID1. Losing 100-200GB of data sucks, but not as bad especially since you can realistically back up the important stuff. Losing 750GB is a deathblow...
Yes I agree, Raiding this amount of data has got to be the only way to do it.
I love these new drive sizes but wow, it's starting to get to the point where everyone's going to have to have backups or raid arrays just for your everyday amount of stuff. The drives have gotten bigger but you still hear of the drives that have died and how aunt macy lost all her pictures.
I personally wish that the manufactures would start working on reliability before size.
I pity the foo' who has to run scandisk!
Dave that is the funniest thing I've heard all day! It's funny cause it's true.
Well this would be a nice backup medium. Also, in like 4-5 months it should cost around $200, so I really don't see a reason to rush and buy this for $600.
I just happened to go over to newegg to do some comparing with other $$/Gb when I saw this. And they have this drive listed at 545 w/shipping. So that makes it about .7266/Gb.
Compare that to a 250Gb `cuda SATA150 at .36/Gb. I dont think its worth it yet unless you really need the extra drive bays or dont have much space. When they start selling the 10Tb drives call me.
The more capacity you disk has, the more you risk to lose in just one stinky puff from your PC :)
P.S. Shit doesn't just happen, it waits, it matures, to pay you a visit at just the right time...
I have an Acer 1710smi with a 400GB HD now. It being a desk note and supposedly unable to support more than 250HD at the time of manufacture.... I understand that this drive will be ATA100 AND SATA... my Bios is ATA 100 only... who can tell me if this 750 will work in my Acer?
Thanks