various Seagate drives - 7200.9, 7200.10, ES, SV35 ???

[Zap]

I'm more familiar with the 7200.XX series of drives, but Seagate has "ES" series and "SV35" series of drives. Seems like a lot of overlap. What are their target markets? What are the differences? The "ES" seems to be enterprise/nearline, as far as I can tell. "SV35" seems to be marketed towards... multimedia?

Okay, found on Seagate's site...

Seagate enterprise drives?Cheetah 15K.5, Cheetah 10K.7, Savvio 10K.2 and Barracuda ES Series?provide storage solutions for every data center application.

Still can't find information about "SV35."

 

[Trippytiger]

http://www.seagate.com/products/consumer_electronics/sv35.html

Seagate claims the drives are specifically designed for digital video recording and in video surveillance systems.

 

[acegazda]

They're probably just heavier duty rotors made to run 24/7... doesn't look like they have any special features.

 

[Zepper]

For normal uses the new 7200.10 series with P-R (perpendicular recording) is probably the best value on the market today. Faster than any other PATA/SATA drive short of the Raptors and a very low cost /GB. Of course the other brands should be out with full lines of P-R drives soon (some have P-R in notebook drives now), so things could well change again then.

.bh.

 

[Mark R]

Seagate SV35 info

Basically, the SV35 is optimised for low power/heat and is performance is balance between data integrity and immediate availability of data.

Normal desktop drives will attempt to read and reread a sector for up to 30 seconds if they're struggling to read it - but they will never send corrupt data to the PC.

In contrast, the set-top-box drives are optimised for speed - if they spot a degrading sector, they won't bother to reread it, they'll just send the corrupted data to the PC. If the drive stopped, then recordings could fail because the STB ran out of buffer RAM.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Mark R
In contrast, the set-top-box drives are optimised for speed - if they spot a degrading sector, they won't bother to reread it, they'll just send the corrupted data to the PC. If the drive stopped, then recordings could fail because the STB ran out of buffer RAM.

Thanks for the concise explanation. I'll stick with the 7200.10 drives.

 

[Fasil]

anyone have a good source for the SV35 drives?

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Fasil
anyone have a good source for the SV35 drives?

Newegg? That's where I saw them.