Seagate Prepping 1TB Barracuda

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The thousand gigabyte-per-disk era is almost upon us

Earlier this year Seagate confirmed it would ship a 1TB hard drive before the second half of this year. With the first quarter of this year already over, the launch window for Seagate's next generation drive is rapidly shrinking.

Seagate would not confirm or deny the expectation of a new 7200.11 series this morning. Seagate representatives responded to our inquiries stating, "We already stated earlier this year that we would have the 1TB drive before the second half of this year."

Spanish-language site Chilehardware countered Seagate's announcement with specifications of the 11th generation Seagate Barracuda drive, which it listed as follows:

* 1 Terabyte capacity
* 7200RPM
* SATA 3.0Gbps interface
* Perpendicular recording
* NCQ
* 16MB of buffer
* 4 platters
* 8 heads

Seagate traditionally reserves new generation designations for platter advancements; the company has never released new generation indicators for storage increases alone. However, it has been a year refresh since the last platter update so it would not be unrealistic to expect new features on the soon-to-ship devices.

Seagate replied to DailyTech stating, "There is no embargo yet." However, we were still assured that the company would fulfill its ship date promise.

Hitachi Global Storage and Seagate released 1TB hard drive promises within hours of each other last January. Both manufacturers utilize Komag platter configurations -- Komag is the only platter manufacturer to announce 1TB designs to date.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6709
 
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How often do hard drives fail? I mean really....

My computer's been running, and actively using the hard drive doing gnutella/torrents/newsgroups or recording shows with media center, defragmentations, unzipping rars, burning cd's, decrypting dvd's all day, and all night, and the hard drive that came with it is still healthy as could be.

Do hard disks really have a high failure rate?

Actually, now the 250GB drive that came in this computer is used as secondary storage, and my primary disc is a 80GB PATA drive that came in my vaio 2.4 that i bought back in 2001.

It's still working just fine as well (albeit slow, but still working)
 
I haven't personally had a HD fail (yet! knock on wood), but i work in a computer shop and failed drives show up all the time.

Obviously, they are seen here in the service department more because people come here when things go wrong, but I personally would want to spread things out a bit and use two 500gb.

it does happen, and some day (again knock on wood) it may happen to me.
 
heyman421 said:
I like seagate.

Very fast for the money.

And the barracudas favor max speed for seek time, which is great for my useage
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yeah i would definatly buy a Seagate barracude drive again.

But i could never see myself needing 1TB of hard disk space...lol i never fill half of my 120Gb drive :D
 
I might consider one next time i build, but i'm not gonna buy one just to add a TB to my existing computer.

I try and keep my drives as empty as possible as it is.

I like archiving all my movies/music/games on dvd's in a big 1000 disc case, and organized by number in excel.
 
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