Hitting 100 GB per Platter: Seagate ST3200822A

[wayliff]

Summary:
The next generation of hard drives has been introduced by Seagate. Only a couple of days ago, a fresh Cuda 7200.7 (aka ST 3200822A) arrived at our lab. 7,200 rpm, 8 MB cache and an amazing 100 GB per platter should do a good job, theoretically. Check out what this new drive is all about.

Link to Article @ Tom's Hardware

 

[parsley007]

sweet...i want 5 🙂

 

[shiftomnimega]

What's so special about the 100 GB platter?

I read the article, but don't really get what the big deal is.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Originally posted by: shiftomnimega
What's so special about the 100 GB platter?

I read the article, but don't really get what the big deal is.

I guess that could mean 300GB drives. I assume the current 250GB ones are 3 80GB platters.

 

[Auric]

Originally posted by: shiftomnimega
What's so special about the 100 GB platter?

I read the article, but don't really get what the big deal is.

Higher density equates to higher performance and greater capacity and even if you do not require maximum capacity, you can have more with less noise when using a single platter instead of two or more of lower density.

 

[JBT]

Should be faster and now they can make 100 Gig hard drives instead of either 80 or 120's hehe

 

[tallman45]

Wow, a 15gb outer partition on that baby must really get good performance numbers !

 

[Davegod75]

availability....i've been waiting for these drives for like 6 months now..

 

[wayliff]

I found this...

LINKY!

 

[Sunner]

Uhh, those have been available for quite a while.
At least around here, and we(Sweden) typically get stuff later than NA.

 

[wayliff]

More comments? Thoughts? Reviews?

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: wayliff
More comments? Thoughts? Reviews?

like what?

the bigger the platters = bigger drives
the denser the platters = better the perfomance
reviews = toms .. maybe check storagereview.com

 

[Overkast]

100 GB platters are just wonderful..... for me to poop on!

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

I own one, it's not like they just barely hit the market

I don't like that Seagate prevents me from switching to performance mode through Acoustic Management. The seek time sucks ass in this mode.

 

[wayliff]

Originally posted by: Sid59

Originally posted by: wayliff
More comments? Thoughts? Reviews?

like what?

the bigger the platters = bigger drives
the denser the platters = better the perfomance
reviews = toms .. maybe check storagereview.com

Yeah, that is exactly what we were missing.
I thought somebody might have extra input or have info this article does not have.

 

[Davegod75]

do they make a single platter version?

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: Davegod75
do they make a single platter version?

don't think so .. but we'll prolly see more laptops with 100 GB hdds.