Seagate Ships the World's Highest Areal Density 3.5" Desktop Drive

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Seagate, today announced that it has begun worldwide volume shipments of the industry's first 250GB-per-disc, 3.5-inch disc drive on the strength of second-generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology. Packing an industry-leading data density of 180 Gbits per square inch, the one-disc Barracuda hard drive sets new benchmarks for power consumption, acoustics and performance for Seagate desktop PC hard drives - all critical factors in providing the massive amounts of storage required for the world's exploding volume of digital content at home and in the office. Low power consumption reduces operating temperatures, crucial in ensuring high reliability and a long drive life.


The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drive, the industry's most advanced 3.5-inch desktop drive, is built with a fast SATA 3Gb/s interface and will serve as the foundation for Seagate's 1-terabyte desktop, enterprise, consumer electronics and external hard drives.

"Seagate remains focused on leading the hard drive's pivotal transition to perpendicular recording technology and maintaining our areal density leadership in order to meet our customers' growing storage capacity and reliability needs," said Brian Dexheimer, chief sales and marketing officer for Seagate. "This product's leading areal density epitomizes our efforts to deliver technologies that are unmatched in allowing organizations and consumers to store, protect and share digital content."

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[HellasVagabond]

Hmm intriguing....Could that have been achieved cause of the Maxtor Aquisition by Seagate ?

 

[Steevo]

The later maxtor drives were plagued by power issues, if you had dirty power they died. I liked the Maxtor warranty system though, seagates sucks.



But the performance of these drives is awesome. Hopefully I can get my hands on a couple. The 400Gb perp drive I have here is almost as fast as my RAID array at home.

 

[HellasVagabond]

Never had a problem with maxtor nor Quantum for that matter. Always had problems with Seagates however....
Does this line only comes in 1TB flavour ?

 

[WarEagleAU]

that is indeed awesome. Does the article mention the total GB size though?

 

[ex_reven]

I dont think I quite understand.

Am I Correct in stating that by "250Gb per disk" they mean "per drive platter within the hard drive itself" ?
If so how many platters does this drive have?

I dont undertstand where the 7200.10 comes into the equation. I have two of these drives so obviously the ones I have arnt the same as the ones theyr talking about. Did they improve the 7200.10 drive so that it could have a 1 terabyte capacity?

 

[kakazza]

Afaik the current 7200.10 1TB drive has 5x167GB Platters. I guess the name 7200.10 will stay for the 4x250GB Platter ones, but a new product ID, similiar to CPU Stepping.

 

[Wile E]

Sticking with the 7200.10 naming is a little confusing. Usually when they make an advance such as this, they up the point number. I would've thought these would be 7200.11 drives.

I'd like to see what these can do at that density.

 

[HellasVagabond]

What remains is to see reviews of it in order to decide.

 

[kakazza]

If they are as hot and noisy as the current 7200.10, I will stick with my Samsung T166 Series.

 

[ex_reven]

If they are as hot and noisy as the current 7200.10, I will stick with my Samsung T166 Series.

I dunno what Hdds you bought, but mine are silent and dont hit more than 34 degrees...

 

[Darkrealms]

It does sound like it means 250gb per plater. My question is if it still spins at 7200 rpms but has a much higher density, how much faster can it read?? Can it read its full density in one pass? Or is it reading the same amount but different layers per pass/rotation??