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Seagate has a low power drive line now too
SEAGATE IS GETTING INTO the low power hard drive game. Since WD took the Green name, these are going to be called Barracuda LP.
Initially, there are three versions - 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB - and Seagate says they are shipping now. Since I can't find them on any etailer, and Seagate doesn't list a MSRP on its website, we can only presume that these drives will be priced near their WD competition. I wouldn't expect them to show up on shelves for a week or three.
Interestingly, Seagate claims a 5900 RPM spindle speed, and by inference, claims WD is at 5400 RPM. Then it is on to the usual green claims, like 50% less power than 'standard' hard drives. I would tell you what standard is, but the fine print refers you to a damnable flash presentation. I guess they think that if you are interested in tech specs you are also incapable of reading.
In any case, it is nice to see that more companies are jumping on the low power drive bandwagon. With the rise of media centers and NAS boxes, there is a real call for cool and 'fast enough' media with obscenely large capacities. µ
Note: If you look at the bottom of the Seagate LP page, you can see their new slogan is "Think Green", complete with a CFL bulb logo. I guess they weren't intending that to mean, "When you are considering our LP line, think about our competition".
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Seagate was my favorite HD vendor up to the early/mid 2000's. Then its name started to appear on forums with less-than-fav remarks on perceived quality. Then the floodgates opened with the 7200.11 fiasco.
Drives have no business in the world if they can not be trusted. I don't care if they cost a penny, dissipate a milliwatt and beat SSD in performance - I want and demand in-service life of much more than 3 months.
And since Seagate went on a denial trip, I will not touch any of their drives until I see about a year long usage data to make sure that there is no new and untested technology/production lines brought on-board to cut costs or "to improve" things.
SeaGate Has Fine Product for Reasoned consumer, Yet For Unreasonable heres: Texas Memory Systems has announced its biggest flash SSD yet - the 5TB RamSan-620.
This product comes as a 2U rack shelf and uses single level cell (SLC) flash. It is, TMS claims, the highest capacity SLC SSD on the market, as well as the fastest at 250,000 sustained I/Os per second (IOPS) for random reads and random writes. The throughput is 3GB per second and latency 80 microseconds for writes
it uses cool 300 Watts! Once SSD/Cp/Gp/u Sold EveryOne iA32/64, maybe go to ia80. hahah, Get It? New hardware Matrixes needed for new string formatt, Old SSD, t r a s h!!!. Hahaha NCQ drashek of Perpendicular.
It may just have been bad luck but after experiencing high failure rates with Seagate’s I will never buy them again and they were quite noisy and hot.
I'm going back a few years now so I might be doing them an injustice but once I’m put off a supplier I find it very difficult to go back.
I’ve been using WD for about 4 years now and NONE of them have gone bad on me and a couple of them are in the same machines the Seagate’s where in.
Go figure…
Seagate already have a "low power" line of drives: the Barracuda 7200.11's. Fully 30% of the drives, in various sizes, draw 0 watts and 0 amps at full load. Of course, these drives are no speed demons with 0 Mps read/write speeds, but hey, they sure are green!
Seriously, you guys need to hire someone whos job is solely to decode the ramblings of Drashek. Im certain theres some sense to what he says, but for the life of me I cant work it out