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Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 Perpendicular! HD Review.

techreport.com — Remember that "Get perpendicular" flash presentation by Seagate for its new hard drive? Well here it is and its performance is quite amazing for its 750 gigabyte size. The cost for the drive is also cheap going at around $0.55 per gigabyte while 500GB hard drives usually go for $0.52 per gigabyte.

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  • toaste, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14 1 digg for including a comparison of idle and seek noise.
  • burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It seems to drain quite a bit more power. Then again, I guess the alternative is multiple hard drives, which would definitely be worse.
    • matt21811, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I think you had better get used to the idea of a computer with multiple hard disks.
      The long term trend is that the price of the sweet spot drive(the disk with the best gig per $) is moving down.
      The rate at which drives are growing has also slowed down dramaticlly in the last few years.
      This means in the future that if you want large amounts of storage then you will have to go the multiple drive route.
  • TheAttacks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9hmm, i liked the diagram, i had no idea what they meant by "Perpendicular" before I saw that.
  • tube013, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40The Get Perpendicular Flash thing was from Hitachi, not Seagate
  • Paqza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'd need a minimum of 3 in order to raid 5 that nonsense...I refuse to lose that much data. I trust Seagate [how can you not love a company with a 5 year warranty?] but 500GB+ is 500GB+.
  • barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
  • utch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/images/pr%20images/Get_Perpendicular.swf
    via - http://digg.com/links/Awesome_Video_Everyone_should_see_
  • jslicer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd really like to see the effect of command queuing (sp?) on at least a RAID 0 configuration of two of these drives versus the same on Raptor X.
  • chad78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Quote:

    The cost for the drive is also cheap going at around $0.55 per gigabyte while 500GB hard drives usually go for $0.52 per gigabyte.

    So it's cheaper per gig to get the smaller drive? That's not how it normally works.
  • Nitro187, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I actually have 15 of these drives on my lap right now. 9 SATA and 6 IDE. :)

    I'm upgrading the file server at my work. I own my own computer business, and sold them the hard drives.

    Going from 250 gig drives to 750, what an increase! Kind of funny that today is when I got them, and this review came out. hahah. Can't wait to install them!!!
  • seacow, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9HD=High Definition
    HDD=Hard Disk Drive
    The title confused me :)
    • EgoDemens, on 10/12/2007, -13/+8HD stood for Hard Drive long before High Definition so the title is OK and you must have the brain of a grasshopper to be confused so easily.
    • shtonkalot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree, HDD is the standard I grew up with.
      Same with FDD for Floppy Disk Drive.
    • Juano11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Seagate's Barracuda = Hard Drive

      Since when did Seagate start making televisions?
  • Gizza, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Well going by usual hard drive labelling standards, this would make it..... 698GB, thats a lot of gigs to loose. And wouldn't perpendicular storage just make the platters thicker, so although it would be faster to access u could fit less in thus reducing the extra capacity advantage???
  • zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I had a brand new seagate 300 gig drive fail in 45 days it 90% full ouch, ST33831A
    Seagate was good to me and the drive was replaced under warranty.
    But I've had a rash of Maxtors fail 250 gig's. So at this point I don't trust hard drives.
    I'm just going to wait till the 1TB drive hit the street and build myself a 4TB raid array.
    Single large drives give me the shivers.
    • soulpunisher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you are going to wait and don't trust hard drives then wait for solid state ones or a hybrid one.
  • fudgebrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use Seagate's 160GB perpendicular drive in my Powerbook...runs great - nice and quiet, plus the added HD space is great...
  • aquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hope Seagate uses this perpendicular technology to drastically increase 2.5" HD size in the upcoming year.

    My MBP wants 200GB!
    • linuxlizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My laptop wants that much space, too. More music while on the road!
  • dave5700, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1For the user (no business) what do you store on your hard drive? I have trouble filling up 160gb's. Oh well.

    • DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3easy.
      Digital Pictures, Lossless audio files (FLAC), and backups including DVD's.
    • linuxlizard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18.5" by 11" 1200 DPI image scan ~ 500MB uncompressed.

      My job is developing scanners so I go through a lot of GB.
    • s14rider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 mostly porn, then games, mp3, pictures and movies.
    • molochi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Entire seasons of TV shows ( ~350MB per hour), a hundred or so movies 700-1400MB ea, dozens of game ISOs ( up to 4GB ea), thousands of mp3s (~5MBea), pics from the various cameras and slide scans, and Ghost HDD Images of base installs, fill my HDDs to the brim. I delete 50GB per month to make space on about 600GB of storage on the house's main server
    • jonnyeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1World of Warcraft
  • ohnnyj, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5anandtech has had a review of this drive since the 18th:

    http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2760
  • modena330, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3ExtremeTech also has a nice review: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1959264,00.asp

    ...As well as a followup review: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1964056,00.asp
  • rvalles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The benchmarks they do are pathetic; Why does nobody do proper benchmarks using GNU/Linux, measuring throughput, interactivity (seeking), etc?
  • blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Get PER-PIN-DICU-LUUUUR!" Get perpendicular.
  • AOHELL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah the flash comes from Hitachi my bad on that. Thanks for the extra link reviews.
  • perryge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I really liked the visual representation of longitudinal vs perpendicular recording, it was worth a read just for that.
  • matt.rubin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148134

    and its for sell already

    whoa and i realized.... 1.4TB!?!?!? in raid 0.... whoa
    • ibart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1digg for the newegg link - thank God for newegg - they are the best place to buy
  • zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seagate what I want to see is a 1tb (formated) drive from you guys.
    Just do it and the drive wars will be over and I can stop buying new drive arrays.
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