Seagate Barracuda 7200.11: 1.5TB of love

You know, we're not actually certain we want to trust 1.5TB of our precious precious NES ROMS invaluable work data to a single drive, but that doesn't mean Seagate's latest Barracuda isn't droolworthy regardless. The jump from 1TB to 1.5TB is the "largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives," according to Seagate, and the perpendicular-recording drives should begin shipping in August. There are also a pair of Momentus 2.5-inch 500GB notebook drives coming in Q4 in 5400 and 7200RPM speeds, but like big brother, pricing is unavailable -- we've got a hunch you might want to start saving those pennies, though.

[Thanks, Dave]

[Justin B @ Jul 10th 2008 5:15PM]

My God.

[Your God @ Jul 10th 2008 5:18PM]

Yes??

[martin @ Jul 10th 2008 5:19PM]

its god :-o and he wins the internet

[Jon Doe. @ Jul 10th 2008 6:49PM]

God. Can you make the Mac fanbois go away? Not your friendly average Mac user, but the zealots who make me want to gnaw off someone's face. Thanks.

Sincerely,

John Doe.

PS- Oh and please let someone invent a 48 hour battery that is edible like a cookie when it can no longer hold a charge. That would be really swell. so when a battery can no longer hold a changer for the last time the heat from the system bakes it into a cookie that can be passed around. Mmmmm cookie. :-P

[Phoenix @ Jul 10th 2008 8:31PM]

I won't get excited until they develop a 1.5TB solid state drive. Then I'll be absolutely drooling. ^_^

[Paulmichael @ Jul 11th 2008 1:50AM]

Oh, it'll happen. Hopefully within a decade or so.

[Lane @ Jul 10th 2008 5:16PM]

This thing is AWESOME. Too bad it'll cost way too much for me. :(

[Mr. E @ Jul 10th 2008 6:20PM]

They can't get away with charging more than double the price of a 1 TB model. That would be $399 maximum at today's prices.

I know that there are many 3 platter 1 TB drives already, so Samsung for instance could easily pip Seagate with a 5 platter, 1.66 TB drive. Seagate has to stay in line with pricing on this bad boy.

[Lowest Ranked @ Jul 10th 2008 5:20PM]

Every ROM for every game made for NES and SNES would fit on a 1.44Mb 3.5" floppy.

[Hooterman @ Jul 10th 2008 5:33PM]

you couldn't be more wrong

[Danakin @ Jul 10th 2008 5:33PM]

a floppy?...surely you jest?

probaby closer to a 25GB blu-ray

[Tarvus Domicus @ Jul 10th 2008 5:35PM]

Actually, the storage needed for both NES + SNES is about 9.2 GB. That's 22,107 roms to be exact.

[Lowest Ranked @ Jul 10th 2008 6:03PM]

/sarcasm

[John @ Jul 10th 2008 6:06PM]

I feel kind of bad about low ranking him for that egregiously wrong comment, because somehow I think we're playing right into his hands...

[jollyllama @ Jul 10th 2008 6:28PM]

Tarvus just won this round of the internets.

[bobartig @ Jul 10th 2008 7:17PM]

Every NES ROM zipped is around 65-70 MB.

SNES games range from 256k to several megabytes.

[polobunny @ Jul 10th 2008 10:42PM]

You guys better learn about GoodMerge, the cool way of storing your ROMs.
All commercial NES and SNES roms GoodMerge 7zip total less than 2GB.

[LondonConsultant @ Jul 11th 2008 5:06AM]

"Every ROM for every game made for NES and SNES would fit on a 1.44Mb 3.5" floppy"

I would have thought they'd topple over.

[Maxx @ Jul 10th 2008 5:21PM]

I know the year isn't over yet, but didn't Seagate say they were coming out with 2 TB drives this year?

[CcntMnky @ Jul 10th 2008 7:03PM]

No, they said 2GB in 2009.

[CcntMnky @ Jul 10th 2008 7:13PM]

That was supposed to be 2TB.

[Jerome @ Jul 10th 2008 5:21PM]

I'll pass on this one. I'll stick to having three 500GB drives. Safer than loosing it all in one failure.

[Rogue_Genius @ Jul 10th 2008 5:36PM]

Heaven forbid you should "loose" all your coveted roms and pr0n.

I prefer tight data in the event of a failure.

[Mr. E @ Jul 10th 2008 6:21PM]

Hard drive mirroring FTW!

[CcntMnky @ Jul 10th 2008 7:06PM]

Since when is it OK to lose 1/3 of your data? I don't know about you, but losing that much would cost me more than the extra drive.

Unless it's in my DVR, in which case I want 1 HUGE drive.

[NewJohnny @ Jul 12th 2008 3:16PM]

You sound just like the guy who said he wouldn't trust all his data to an 80gb drive. Times change, man-- change with them.

[Jerome @ Jul 10th 2008 8:32PM]

"You sound just like the guy who said he wouldn't trust all his data to an 80gb drive. Times change, man-- change with them"

A couple things:
1. I won't need that much (I hardly even use up 80 GB, so I have two 80GB mirrored... yes, I am the guy who wouldn't trust my data on an 80GB drive... j/k)

2. Currently, I'd see it cheaper to buy three 500's than the coming 1.5TB, unless the HDD is going to be less than $250 (since I can pick up a 500GB drive for a little more than $80 easily)

3. If I wanted 1.5TB storage, it would all have to be mirrored... meaning I'll need to buy two. No thank you.

[isma @ Jul 10th 2008 5:21PM]

1.5TB of NES roms??? impossible!

[Jhongerkong @ Jul 11th 2008 12:25AM]

Especially when every nes rom (including JP, EU and crappy rom hacks and demos) is around 200mbs

[naz @ Jul 10th 2008 5:22PM]

That thing laughs is the face a 128gb SSD

[ddub @ Jul 10th 2008 5:29PM]

I was just asking yesterday why its taking so long to come out with hard drives larger than 1TB and here we are. Still seems like it took too long. Not that I'm going to buy it, but I want the price of 1TB drives to drop so I can buy one of those.

[dudness @ Jul 10th 2008 5:40PM]

Yep, exactly what I was going to say.

[ddub @ Jul 10th 2008 5:43PM]

LOL dudness, you're right!

[Vidikron (FU) @ Jul 10th 2008 5:51PM]

Ditto... I was wanting bigger drives to come out to drive down the price of the 1TB drives.

[corey.coughlin @ Jul 10th 2008 5:29PM]

Finally, it's about time we got some drives bigger than 1TB. Now I can really start considering upgrading my NAS. It always seemed like it would be dumb to upgrade 750GB drives to 1TB drives, but 750GB to 1.5TB, now that's an upgrade!

[JonM @ Jul 10th 2008 5:32PM]

All thanks to: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

Get Perpendicular!

[Slappy Wag @ Jul 10th 2008 7:37PM]

Can I have my five minutes back now? That was a total rip-off of Schoolhouse Rock. For shame. I'm just a lonley Bill.

[Jake @ Jul 10th 2008 11:56PM]

It was supposed to be, you chump.

-jp

[Andrew Lazetera @ Jul 10th 2008 11:58PM]

HAHAH I remember that animation from long before perpendicular was even out, thank you for bringing up memories of 6GB Microdrives! Now that we have the 30,000 song....oh wait, still 6GB... Ironically flash is now what holds more in the micro arena, unless I just stopped following microdrives and they somehow got amazing without anyone knowing...

[roman.kim @ Jul 10th 2008 5:38PM]

500GB drives are the best value for money at the moment, you can pick one up for under $80

[maxtraveler @ Jul 10th 2008 6:12PM]

Got an external 1TB with 32mb cache and eSATA for $169 shipped last week. Seems cheap for that extra 500GB...

[Reid @ Jul 10th 2008 5:39PM]

I'll take 4.

[Zak @ Jul 10th 2008 5:58PM]

Seconded

[rtdunham @ Jul 10th 2008 5:40PM]

anyone know the height of those two 2.5-inch drives?

[Miguel @ Jul 11th 2008 12:43AM]

I see what you did there.

[brandon @ Jul 10th 2008 5:44PM]

largest capacity jump? 30% ? not likely. by GB it might be the highest, sure, but not by percentage. not even close.

[brandon @ Jul 10th 2008 5:47PM]

crap, my bad. 50%. reverse math, lol. still not even close though.

[Tarvus Domicus @ Jul 10th 2008 5:59PM]

I loathe the advertising for hard drives. I have five externals because my 400 GB drive [maximum available at the comp was purchased] is a joke.

I would be willing to bet everything I own that when someone fires up one of these 1.5 TB drives they are presented with 1.2 TB as the maximum storage available. Does 1.2 = 1.5? NO IT DOESN'T. Hey Seagate, do us a favor, put 1.2 GB on the side of the boxes.

The amount of storage you get when a drive is plugged in, THAT is the amount that should be on the box. My point is, stop all the false advertising and tell the consumers what they're actually getting. It's called being honest.

My drives are as follows:
2 x 750 GB - only 698 GB available
1 x 500 GB - only 465 GB available
2 x 400 GB - only 372 GB available

Those figures are disgusting. All the drive manufacturer's had to do was put the secondary amounts on the box and I would be a happy customer. Instead, everyone who buys a drive is being lied to.

[roman.kim @ Jul 10th 2008 6:11PM]

They will be presented with 1395GB of usable capacity.
You lost everything you own.

[Jose @ Jul 10th 2008 6:15PM]

Actually, manufacturers do include the "visible space" on their packaging (albeit in fine print) and most also explain how an OS calculations are different than those that HDD manufacturers use.