Seagate Ships Barracuda® 7200.12 HD Desktop HDD with World's Highest Areal Density - VRForums - IT Show 2010 | The Most Happening IT & Singapore Lifestyle Community

newzhunter · Jan 6th, 09, 12:01 AM

Seagate (Nasdaq: STX - News) today announced first-to-market volume shipments of a mainstream desktop hard drive with the industry's highest areal density. Packing 1TB of capacity on just two disks, Seagate's Barracuda® 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive features an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch to deliver the best combination of capacity, performance and reliability for PCs, desktop RAID and personal external storage.
"Demand for more desktop PC storage capacity is far from letting up as computer users worldwide generate massive amounts of digital content every day," said Tom Major, Seagate vice president, Personal Compute Business. "Seagate is leading the industry with new storage solutions designed to store, share and manage all of that business- and user-generated content."

The Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive provides a stellar combination of storage capacity and speed required for today's most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive's Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 160MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 750GB and 500GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

Nuker_ · Jan 6th, 09, 12:09 AM

hopefully they would have fixed all of the problems that plagued 7200.11.

MasterYoda34 · Jan 6th, 09, 02:54 AM

I bet a 2TB model is in the works then also.

NextGen_Gamer · Jan 6th, 09, 05:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Nuker_

hopefully they would have fixed all of the problems that plagued 7200.11.

Those problems were only in the 1.5TB model, and they have all been fixed by firmware updates. So I would assume the new Barracuda 7200.12 series will be just fine.

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Originally Posted by MasterYoda34

I bet a 2TB model is in the works then also.

No doubt. Seagate has a very strict policy of using up to only four platters in a single HDD (everyone else goes up to five), so this move to 500GB platters is very important. I fully expect Seagate to announce the 1.5TB and 2.0TB models at either CeBIT or Computex.

power666 · Jan 6th, 09, 08:41 AM

I must have missed this, but what were the problems with the 7200.11?

Sen · Jan 6th, 09, 09:21 AM

The 1TB looks interesting. Anyway the 500GB was out in Japan already.

Del_CtrlnoAlt · Jan 6th, 09, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by newzhunter

Seagate (Nasdaq: STX - News) today announced first-to-market volume shipments of a mainstream desktop hard drive with the industry's highest areal density. Packing 1TB of capacity on just two disks, Seagate's Barracuda® 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive features an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch to deliver the best combination of capacity, performance and reliability for PCs, desktop RAID and personal external storage.
"Demand for more desktop PC storage capacity is far from letting up as computer users worldwide generate massive amounts of digital content every day," said Tom Major, Seagate vice president, Personal Compute Business. "Seagate is leading the industry with new storage solutions designed to store, share and manage all of that business- and user-generated content."

The Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive provides a stellar combination of storage capacity and speed required for today's most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive's Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 160MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 750GB and 500GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

wah, liddat can win velociraptor liao...

Sen · Jan 6th, 09, 01:03 PM

almost

here is the 500GB benchies

http://skyline798.blog118.fc2.com/blog-entry-1266.html

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wah, liddat can win velociraptor liao...

Nuker_ · Jan 6th, 09, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by NextGen_Gamer

Those problems were only in the 1.5TB model, and they have all been fixed by firmware updates. So I would assume the new Barracuda 7200.12 series will be just fine.

No doubt. Seagate has a very strict policy of using up to only four platters in a single HDD (everyone else goes up to five), so this move to 500GB platters is very important. I fully expect Seagate to announce the 1.5TB and 2.0TB models at either CeBIT or Computex.

No, I knoiw that the whole series,like 500 gigs, 750 gigs, 1 TB drives all would just die suddenly and they had soem kind of stuttering issue and a lot of people seem to be furious at seagate about that.

Del_CtrlnoAlt · Jan 6th, 09, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sen

almost

here is the 500GB benchies

http://skyline798.blog118.fc2.com/blog-entry-1266.html

damnit, buy velociraptor is waste money liao...

Del_CtrlnoAlt · Jan 6th, 09, 01:34 PM

wait ar, dunno how to read that...

no compare with velociraptor yet... but seems to win WD Black wor...

can take my 2 WD Black 1TB and sayang liao, ego bruised...