Seagate 7200.10 320GB Serial ATA II HDD + Ritek 25 DVDs for $100 shipped

[Craig234]

Was interesting until the loudness mentioned in the review. I'm tired of a loud PC and am going to try for quiet parts next.

 

[Zap]

Okay, after having it sit 3 hours in my cart... purchased it.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: esquared

Originally posted by: Engineer
Here's a review on the 7200.10 series 750GB model (4 platters vs 2 of the 320 GB drive). Takes a look at speed, heat and noise.

Thanks for the link engineer. The review makes it look a little noisy and a bit on the hot side.


Seek noise was quite a different story. The 7200.9 sample had sharp, abrupt seeks, and this aspect was even more in this 7200.10. In fact, the peaks measured 34 dBA@1m, making it the first drive we've measured above 30 dBA@1m. The implementation of Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM) to reduce the seek noise is sorely missed.

A new record was set for the amount of power consumed at idle: The 7200.10 is the first drive we've seen that consumes more than 9 watts at idle. As this would suggest, the drive ran quite hot; by the end of the acoustic testing, during which the drive was resting on a nonconductive piece of foam, I was unable to touch the drive for more than a second or two. (Editor's Note: Wimp! ?) According to the internal thermal sensor, the drive temperature at this time was 53°C and climbing.

the heat and power use of a 2 platter 4 head drive, vs. a 4 platter 8 head drive is very different.


4 platter drives for one thing are very rare for this reason (ibm/hitachi is the only company that makes 5 platter ones... whcih are also hot and power hungry).


a motor spinning 4 platters at 7200 rpm needs to be much stronger and generated much more friction. not to mention air friction on the platters.

 

[Engineer]

4 way shootout featuring the 300GB (not 320) Seagate 7200.10.

Strange though that it mentions this...

The little brother of its acclaimed 750GB drive, the 7200.10 300GB is so new it's hard to find any information beyond promotional flyers! Also available in 16MB-cache versions, our ST3300820AS model ties an 8MB cache to a SATA 3Gb/s interface. The largest change from Seagate's "early" 7200.10 320GB of just a few weeks ago is the use of two higher-density platters rather than three, which should reduce heat and noise. Seagate credits the 7200.10 series' density to perpendicular-bit technology, but we've already seen platters up to 160GB in its most recent 7200.9 longitudinal-bit design.

So does the 320GB version have 3 platters or 2?

Edit: Datasheet says 2 platters/ 4 heads for the 320GB version.

 

[anonz]

Thx OP....great deal with no rebates, no shipping costs and no tax = minimum hassle.

 

[khurios2000]

sweet deal

 

[scandalousjack]

Sweet. I'm in for 1. Thanks OP.

 

[Mellman]

heh ordered mine one right after the other, and I have one shipped the other is waiting to be packed...oh wells

 

[Jassi]

I received mine last week (I ordered on 4th of July for 105). I love this drive, I am returning the Samsung 250gb for $60 that I also bought last week. That drive would heat up a lot and was causing problems with the external enclosure. This drive is sweet and was worth every penny imho.

 

[Bozo Galora]

Originally posted by: Engineer
4 way shootout featuring the 300GB (not 320) Seagate 7200.10.

Strange though that it mentions this...



So does the 320GB version have 3 platters or 2?

Edit: Datasheet says 2 platters/ 4 heads for the 320GB version.

The storage review forum had a 3 page thrd on thi. There are SUPPOSED to be 2 166GB platters, but the first drives out had 3 100GB'ers. The prob is theres no way to tell, except by noise and heat.

http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=22660&st=25

I aint touching this drive till it comes out retail

 

[jlin101]

if you go to seagate, you will find that 7200.10 is available at 750, 500, 400, 320, 250 and 200 gb. And the 320 gb has two platters.

 

[ruffilb]

Hot deal... but should I buy?

ARRRG!

 

[BIGFOOTPI]

not as hot, the free DVDs havent been avaliable as a combo item since last night.

 

[Savarak]

just bought this w/o any combos...

how is this drive compared to the 10k rpm Raptor (74gb) that I currently use as my main drive??

 

[EKKC]

use raptor for your windows or OS install, and then use the barracuda for your storage needs

 

[Savarak]

my raptor is still faster even tho its so old?

 

[ironk]

Do perpendicular drives work with Linux/Ubuntu?

 

[HeaterCore]

As far as your system knows this thing is just like any other SATA drive. That's the joy of industry standards.

 

[jlin101]

I just compared my 74 gb raptor to a new WD1600JS with sata II. One on one, the raptor is a little faster on some benches, but not all. At the price of a raptor, though, you can easily buy two barracudas and do a raid 0--that should kill a raptor (unless you are a big spender and want to get raptors in raid).

 

[intogamer]

Combo dead?

The Raptors aren't that fast

SATA2 unlocks more bandwidth

 

[hube235]

Dang, I wish it were that easy to upgrade drives for me... I"ve maxed out my SATA connections so that means I'd hafta replace one of my drives, and sure has heck not replacing my raptor. My main sata drive has all my crap and I'm not going through the process of installing that all that crap again...

 

[blacklit]

Originally posted by: hube235
Dang, I wish it were that easy to upgrade drives for me... I"ve maxed out my SATA connections so that means I'd hafta replace one of my drives, and sure has heck not replacing my raptor. My main sata drive has all my crap and I'm not going through the process of installing that all that crap again...

cool, so you don't have to spend money ~

 

[tallman45]

Originally posted by: jlin101
I just compared my 74 gb raptor to a new WD1600JS with sata II. One on one, the raptor is a little faster on some benches, but not all. At the price of a raptor, though, you can easily buy two barracudas and do a raid 0--that should kill a raptor (unless you are a big spender and want to get raptors in raid).

Which Raptor original 2 platter or new single platter

 

[icyxwindz]

bad luck? this hard drive i got just died on me. comp crashed, when i rebooted, my bios boot disk was wrong and it doesn't detect this Seagate. tried to turn off, replug everything, and it still won't detect.

 

[Rapier]

I got mine in and formatted. Nice deal with the DVD's