Seagate announces billion different new drives

[Pariah]

15k.4 (147GB), 10k.7 (300GB), 7200.8 (400GB), Savvio (2.5" 10k), Momentus 7200.1 (100GB laptop 7200RPM), among the highlights. The 500GB FC drive is quite impressive as well. A complete rundown can be found at THG:

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20040608_130955.html

 

[Kaido]

goodness gracious me...100gb 7200rpm laptop drive...I may have to hold off on the Hitachi 60 gig for when I get my emachines m6809...whooo!

 

[Ionizer86]

Wow, Seagate 7200.8 400GB. Now...don't they think they should make some smaller (more affordable) 7200.8's too? That way, they could sell more disks

 

[Pariah]

I only listed the highest capacities for each. Seagate actually announced 11 new lines of drives. The 7200.8 also has 250GB and 300GB capacities listed.

 

[RaNDoMMAI]

Are they doing anything to make their hardrives quiet like they use to be?

~RaNDoM

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

5gig CFII cards

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

Originally posted by: RaNDoMMAI
Are they doing anything to make their hardrives quiet like they use to be?

~RaNDoM

every drive they make aside from enterprise models are all quiet,and meant to be quiet.

 

[Ionizer86]

Originally posted by: Pariah
I only listed the highest capacities for each. Seagate actually announced 11 new lines of drives. The 7200.8 also has 250GB and 300GB capacities listed.

250GB is pretty huge! That'd be like $130 when there's a decent deal :Q

 

[Pariah]

My guess would be that the 7200.8 line is based on the same 100GB platters that the current 7200.7 200GB drive uses. Might even be the exact same drives only with additional platters, like the Hitachi 7k400 is compared to the previously released 7k250. So Seagate is only announcing new capacities or old capacities with increased GB/platter.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm, assuming that 7200.8 400GB model is comprised of 4 x 100GB platters, that should give Hitachi a run for their money. 4 platters instead of 5, should be theoretically faster, quieter, and more reliable overall. (Plus cheaper to build.) Go Seagate! I'm glad to see them out on the cutting-edge again.

 

[Sunner]

It'll be nice to see how the new generation of 10K and 15K drives do.
The new 15K drives will be very interesting if not for the performance, but for the increased sizes, the 73GB max of current 15K drives is getting a little small.

And then of course, one can always hope for them to hurry up with the 22.5K drives

 

[mechBgon]

Cheetah 15k.4 at last! :Q Hot dasm!

*pant, pant, drool*

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: RaNDoMMAI
Are they doing anything to make their hardrives quiet like they use to be?

~RaNDoM

Didn't Seagate recently get into a spot of bother regarding silent seek technology, which some company alleged that they stole from them?

 

[tweeve2002]

ok i just found my new RAID 0 set up 2x 400GB drives

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: DopeFiend

Originally posted by: RaNDoMMAI
Are they doing anything to make their hardrives quiet like they use to be?

~RaNDoM

Didn't Seagate recently get into a spot of bother regarding silent seek technology, which some company alleged that they stole from them?

Yes, they certainly did:



Link to news story.

 

[sisooktom]

Originally posted by: RaNDoMMAI
Are they doing anything to make their hardrives quiet like they use to be?

~RaNDoM

I just got a 7200.7 160GB SATA and it's whisper quiet. The latest Anandtech review seems to confirm that they're still the quietest brand as well.