04/26/2006, 9:30am, EDT

Wednesday, April 26th

Seagate ships new 'monster' 750GB drive

Seagate today announced the introduction of the world's first desktop hard drive to hit the 750GB capacity mark. The new "monster drive" is part of the new Barracuda 7200.10 family built on perpendicular recording technology designed for desktop computers and low-end servers. "Seagate now delivers perpendicular recording technology across its desktop, notebook, enterprise, consumer electronics and retail hard drives. The technology stands data bits vertically onto the disc media, rather than horizontal to the surface as with traditional longitudinal recording, to deliver new levels of hard drive data density, capacity and reliability. The new data orientation also increases drive throughput without increasing spin speed by allowing more data bits to pass under the drive head in the same amount of time." Now shipping, the $560 drive features a 7200-rpm mechanism in a 3.5" low-profile form-factor and a 5-year warranty.

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koolkid1976

So basically a 732GB HD

04/26, 11:13am, EDT

18,000 MB less once you actually format the thing. CPU manufacturers are not fooling consumes as much with numbers anymore. Why are HD manufactuers still doing it? The bigger the drive gets, the bigger the gap between dividing my 1000 and dividing by 1024.

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I suspect..

04/26, 12:45pm, EDT

I suspect that as internal storage moves away from smaller drive sizes (in capacity) they might change the advertised capacity to reflect the true formated capacity.

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Ilgaz

I would trade to half cap

04/26, 1:29pm, EDT

I think having 2 very fast drives (SATA II or serial attached SCSI) is better than having one giant drive.

You can add more when you need. Speaking about tower owners of course (G5 etc)

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DahlBryn

How do you recover data?

04/26, 2:41pm, EDT

I guess I'm not really understanding the technology.

If your data is stacked vertically when recording, how do you manage data recovery if it fails?

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ecking01

hmmm

04/26, 3:27pm, EDT

Can this go into an imac CD?

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700 GB actually

04/26, 5:55pm, EDT

Not to split hairs, but if you're talking 750 GB, you want to take 750 billion and divide it by 1024 3 times, to get you about 698 GB. At almost 52 GB difference between base 10 and base 2, you'd think they'd be nice and just say you're getting a 700 GB drive, but no. Who knows if they'll ever learn.

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re: How do you recover da

04/27, 1:14pm, EDT

The way I understand it, think of the magnetic particles on the HD in the shape of domino tiles. The traditional way is the tiles are laid flat on the platter. With the vertical technology, the tiles are stood up, and so you can fit more tiles into a given linear distance than the horizontally-laid tiles. The particles are not stacked on top of each other.

Which begs the question, if you tip one particle over, to all the particles get tipped over in the domino fashion?

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