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PSA: Seagate 7200.9 series finally available

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Originally posted by: toattett

It's nothing odd. Seagate has always been "paper lauching" it's product. Remember how long it took to have shipping 7200.8 after they announced it?
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Pretty much all drive manufacturers look as if they do this. That is because their priority is OEMs first, retail customers second. Hard drive mfrs have a much larger interest in keeping people like Dell and Compaq happy as they can easily move to a competitor (easier than with video cards and CPUs where many consumers actually care the brand and model number of what is inside their Dell or Compaq). So they will generally release and ship drives well before people like you and me can find them on the shelves (or virtual shelves in the case of online retailers).

Once inventory is adequate to cover the OEM system builders, then they will release product to the retail channel. They simply don't have much accountability to single purchasers, so we are 'low man on the totem pole'.
 
Yeah, you must've gotten those two confused, Momentus .3 is first perpendicular from Seagate and due early in Calendar 2006 from what I've seen.
 
Originally posted by: foodfightr
Originally posted by: leocanuck
7200.0 160 GB, 8MB cache now at Newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148105
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What exactly is 7200.0? I've also seen that when I tried to froogle part number ST3160812AS, now newegg is showing 7200.9.
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The 7200.0 is a typo, there is no such thing. It seems there are a surprisingly large amount of typos when froogling for '7200.0.' The 7200.9 is where it's at. 🙂
 
ZZF got in the 500GB for $399.

I can't understand why they are going for this segmented release style. Why not release all flavors of the drive at once instead of crapping around like this?
 
Anyone else have a comment on buzzing idle Seagate drives? I have 2 Seagates, and I'm seriously considering switching brands to eliminate an idle buzz... My new WD drive doesn't make any "extra" noise when it's just idling.
 
i can comment directly on that.

this is the buzzing sound that occurs after like 30 seconds of HD idle. thats the "diagnostic" buzz and it goes away after a month or so of use. I cannot hear mine anymore, i dont even know if it still does it.
 
Originally posted by: cryptonomicon
i can comment directly on that.

this is the buzzing sound that occurs after like 30 seconds of HD idle. thats the "diagnostic" buzz and it goes away after a month or so of use. I cannot hear mine anymore, i dont even know if it still does it.
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Well, my Seagate 120gb is still doing it after 2 years. And now it's in an external enclosure... so I can really hear it!

Grrrr....
 
sorry to hear that. I have that 120gb model (7200RPM/8M ST3120026AS) and i suspended it for a while because it was getting too loud. the process increased the temp of my drive about 5* celsius without any metal attacted to it (I had it sitting on a foam pad next to the intake fans). Normal temperature mounted in the bay was about 28*c, and suspended was about 31-34*c.

HARD DRIVE SILENCING METHODS THREAD
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=8240
 
I didnt have time to go through this whole thread, but has anyone bought one of these or found a single review online? Curious how this will stack up against the Hitachi t7k250.

At any rate - I need to buy 3 HDs for work today (2x250gb raid, and a 500gb), so I might be the first! Will post results when they get in...anyone know if the OEM drives on newegg/pagecomputer come with a sata cable?
 
FYI Anandtech has an article on these new drives.

Also Seagate is currently using perpendicular techology in its mobile HDDs so Hitachi isn't the only one 😀
 
orangat, I noticed that also that is kind of perplexing since the unit cost would decrease for the 500GB drives if they used the 160GB platters instead of the 133GB, they could essentially increase their margins.

That is kind of counter-intuetive. Maybe its a way of introducing & testing the new 160GB platters.
 
when it says SATA 300Gb/S, i imagine they also mean that's SATA-II.. and you can't use that on SATA-I (150Gb/S) boards can you?

nevermind, found this on techreport.com today

"In addition to new, denser platters, the 7200.9 sports all the features detailed in the recently drafted Serial ATA 2.5 spec. The Serial ATA 2.5 spec includes a number of required and optional features, and the 7200.9 supports them all, including 300MB/sec transfer rates, Native Command Queuing, hot plugging, and staggered spin-up. The 7200.9 series can also auto-negotiate a host transfer rate with a Serial ATA controller, so you don't have to worry about switching the drive between 150MB/sec and 300MB/sec modes manually."
 
Platters my friend. 250gb 7200.8 is 2 x 133 platters.

Is the 160gb just a single 160gb platter for the 7200.9? If so that would be sexy... I'm sure the 250gb 7200.9 will just be a 7200.8 relabeled without much changes.
 
I wonder how much Anand pocketed from Seagate for that 3 page advertisement. There are few things more worthless than a hard drive "preview" that contains no benchmarks. It's not like hard drive tech has gone through some huge renaissance since the last generation that it needed a multipage commercial detailing all the new features. That article could have accomplished the same thing if it was condensed into one paragraph and posted as a daily news bit.
 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Is the 160gb just a single 160gb platter for the 7200.9? If so that would be sexy... I'm sure the 250gb 7200.9 will just be a 7200.8 relabeled without much changes.
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From anand's preview:
"The 160GB platter has only gone into the 80GB drive, which uses a single side and single head, and the 160GB drive, which uses both sides of the platter with 2 heads. The 400GB model still uses its original three 133GB platter design that was implemented in the 7200.8, while the new 500GB drive uses four 125GB platters. "
 
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