Barracuda IV sitings

[Shmorq]

I don't know if anybody else mentioned this, but if you've been waiting for the Seagate Barracuda IV, do a search for it on pricewatch. It looks like it finally made it to the states.

 

[glen]

linkified

 

[Bozo Galora]

all right! got two boxes just sitting here waiting for those things, didnt want to go IBM with all those bad vibes around here lately.

 

[Bozo Galora]

geez lookit that price. there are gonna kill ibm

60 gigs fastest drive $158

SHAZAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!

 

[Shmorq]

The price looks pretty competitive compared to the other drives of similar size.

$159 for 60GB
$195 for 80GB

I think I'll wait a little bit for the review on this drive to see if it's as good as Seagate says it is.

 

[Shmorq]

Forget about it. I just ordered it. No point having a computer with no hard drive sitting around.

 

[sharkeeper]

I'd definitely wait for SR to test this drive. Seagate's ATA performance has been second class in the past.

Cheers!

 

[glen]

Whoa, did they just bump the price from $185 to $195 for the 80 gig in the last 3 mins?

 

[ragiepew]

Are there any reviews on this drive? I'd be interested to see how it stacks up against a 60gxp... we'll see I suppose...

 

[Bozo Galora]

Using the most advanced data density technology in the industry,
Barracuda ATA IV is the first 7,200-rpm disc drive to achieve 80
Gbytes using only two discs, giving Seagate a significant
advantage in the high-performance PC storage market. The drive's
record-breaking internal transfer rate ? 69.3 Mbytes per second
? is fast enough to copy an hour of MP3 music in under one
second. Barracuda ATA IV is fast enough to stream eight movies
simultaneously, in DVD quality, without dropping a frame.

 

[ragiepew]

wow, lets see if thats truly the case... and also what the high density affects on Seek/Access (which is somewhat more important to me..) time wnill be...