750 GIG hard drives anounced by seagate

[webby]

Seagate's Giant 750GB Hard Drive Expands Universe of Drive Capacity

The Barracuda 7200.10 holds 50 percent more than other large hard drives.

Melissa Perenson, PC World
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Seagate announced today that it is shipping its 750-gigabyte Barracuda 7200.10 drive. This drive represents an increase in capacity of 50 percent over the previous industry maximum of 500GB and is the first 3.5-inch internal drive in the industry to achieve 750GB using perpendicular magnetic recording technology.

"We started shipping into distribution last Tuesday. It's not our first perpendicular drive--the 2.5-inch Momentus was the first--but this is our first 3.5-inch," confirms Joni Clark, product marketing manager at Seagate.

A product data sheet was inadvertently published last Friday on Seagate's site, teasing those who stumbled upon it with the prospect of a 750GB hard drive. You can read that product overview PDF here.
(And one of the drives is being tested today by the PC World Test Center. We hope to have our review up very soon.)

Seagate actually moved up its ship date on the Barracuda 7200.10 750GB drive. "It wasn't supposed to launch for another couple of months, but we're finding perpendicular improves yields and reliability right off the manufacturing line," Clark revealed.

What Is Perpendicular Technology?

Perpendicular recording--a shift from the longitudinal magnetic recording process used for the past 50 years--increases areal density by changing the way data is recorded to the drive. "Everything changes, from the type of media to the type of head," says Clark. "At the drive level, you space your bits farther apart because they're standing on end vertically into the media, which makes them more stable and closer together as compared to longitudinal. So now you have more data bits which will slide underneath the heads as [each] head reads and writes."

"When you pack more data onto that platter, you're able to get to similar or identical capacity points as longitudinal drives [but with fewer platters and heads]," says Clark. "This reduces the number of components within the drive to go wrong, and it takes less power consumption" than with longitudinal recording.

Low Price Per Gigabyte

Surprisingly, Seagate's 750GB drive won't carry a high premium, even though it's first to market at this capacity--and using a new technology at that. In the past, many new hard drives have debuted at $1 per gigabyte; the first 500GB drives sold for $500 at launch.

The SATA version of the 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 drive, however, will debut at $590, which works out to $0.79 per gigabyte. The drive will have four platters and eight heads, just as today's 500GB drives do. The drive will be available with either 16MB or 8MB of cache, and in parallel ATA-100 and serial ATA versions (the shipping drive is set for SATA-150, but you can change a jumper setting to make it work at SATA-300, with support for advanced SATA capabilities like native command queuing.

A 200GB 7200.10 drive is expected to sell for $104.

Seagate plans to keep longitudinal recording around for its smaller-capacity drives, but the company will phase out redundant higher capacities in its current 7200.9 line.

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[CameronJr9]

Oh dang! If only I needed 750 Gigs. I'm doing just fine with my 320.

[cl0wnc4rni]

i currently have 570gb... that is a sick that there will be a 750gb... but i hate seagate with a passion... had TWO 300gb seagates that failed on me.... talk about data loss... thank god they were backed up on my MAXTOR.... what i really want to see is when the holographic hdd's come out... with almost 0 seek time those things will fly...

[webby]

I can't praise any HD company. I've had a couple seagates die, I've had 4 maxtors go in the course of 1 year, and I had a WD die in the previous year. So far (knocks on wood) I'm ok for now.

[NightKidsGTR]

750 Gigs huh? That's a lot of porn...

[martinez_josh]

300 Gig Mac. . . once you go Mac, you never go back.

[maximus20895]

What could you do with 750Gbs

[basmoq]

LOL, MAC's! I won't even go there... As for the big HD, I could really use a couple of those in a raid array. I need more space for all the movies I rip. I rent from Blockbuster online, and rip them to watch later, or shrink them to watch on my ppc while in lecture.

[Celcius]

Originally Posted by NightKidsGTR

750 Gigs huh? That's a lot of porn...

My thoughts exactly. I've got two HD's, both 250 GB. One has porn, one has my critical programs and non-porn related activities.

[Elmacho]

I have a 250 GB WD and have backed up only my files and critical programs once which only took up about 10 GB.. . .

[amdhunter]

We need faster more reliable drives (such as a solid state RAM drive) and not more space IMO...

[06si]

i got 2 maxtor drives in my computer giving me a little over 400 gb. My friend has the same hard drive thats in the old xbox's in his computer. It's like 8gb or something and its made by seagate.

[larryd]

I need to get a new computer and a larger drive. My PC is over 6 years old now and I only have a 120gig.

[Cybergypsy]

Originally Posted by martinez_josh

300 Gig Mac. . . once you go Mac, you never go back.

Yep, PC dont have a chance......

[Tikolx333]

So I have a laptopthe HP dv8000, I love it, its semi mobil but plays all the lates games has 2gig ram and just over all kicks ass. But to be able to afford the kick assness I had to sacrifice the space and I only have 100gigs. For some damn reason 20 gigs of it is on the D drive and it is locked up everytime I try to press i t it says "Recovery Partion WARNING This are of your hard disk (or partion) conatins files used for your system recovery. Do not delete or alter these files."

Where the HP guys too cheap to send me some recovery CD's so the too up 20 gigs of my space for it? Damn those bastardes. So now I only have 80 gigs, and I have 30 gigs of music and another 20 gigs of pics and another 10 for vids. So that doesnt leave me much room for anything else

Now that you know my life story the question. Any sugestions on a good reliable affordable external hard drive? Please be specific.

[locoJack]

Seagate acquires Maxtor. The largest size really 1,000 GB

But, there are 1500 GB, 2000 GB it very too expensive!!

[locoJack]

Originally Posted by cl0wnc4rni

what i really want to see is when the holographic hdd's come out... with almost 0 seek time those things will fly...

There a large battle/war right now with computer and electronic company. I'm in the middle of that war. The holographic HDD is ready for consumer at 1.6 Terabyte per second, 300GB. You will not see it soon because of the cost and production. I'll be amaze if someone sell it. The only people might see it first would be large corporation. Blue-ray slowly coming to consumer. It don't look good right now because of the war with standard of HDD.

[NeverNZ]

Originally Posted by webby

I can't praise any HD company. I've had a couple seagates die, I've had 4 maxtors go in the course of 1 year, and I had a WD die in the previous year. So far (knocks on wood) I'm ok for now.

i always prefer to use western digital

[NeverNZ]

Originally Posted by maximus20895

What could you do with 750Gbs

i reply with:

Originally Posted by NightKidsGTR

750 Gigs huh? That's a lot of porn...

nevertheless, i would love to have a 750 gig HD in addition to my other drives
but it will likely really only be 750000MB, which is only really 732+GB, but who knows, it could really be 7500000000KB, which is only 715GB...

i hate how companies rate HD capacities these days...

[JeShUa]

3 gigs of pictures and 4 of music.
Videos must be huge.. about 4 per movie yes?
You can fill that thing up easy with tons of movies
Pretty cheap.. but as far as reliability .. buy from circuit city with warranty?