Seagate ships the world's fastest largest hard drive

yeah it will also ship with horrible firmware, insane failure rates and bs marketing gimmicks. just like seagate always does.

maxtor lives on strong it seems.

inb4 harddrive failure

On Price/Performance look, its Good Deal, if you have SATA III interface & thank goodness for lift.

Although Hector didn't Show at Troy today, for extra glimpse of Hon ONE, watch David Letterman from NYC tonight.

Can You Imagine Beating Up Person Until there Blind & then complaining their Hanicapp makes you Look BAD, Isn't that point, to put Losers OUT On Street? Go Patterson, go.

Soon enough after ALL Attention, Specifiaclly Failed Controllers of first Punch for sata 6 gb/s, mains will come around to selling its plug, as it is backward compatible. It is unlikely actual HDD is at fault.

What about Cachee', How Big will My Cachee' Get? Oh,My. World IS Expanding.

DRASHEK

Some SSD have MUCH More cache & Few think that 1 bit of cache for every 30,000 bits of data ain't enough, yet heres further detail, Unit IS avaible & On sale NOW.

Seagate had increased the XT's cache from 32MB to 64MB to exploit the newly designed SATA 6G interface.

"The XT's 64MB cache optimizes burst performance and reduces data throughput bottlenecks," said Burks. "So, cache-efficient games and applications, such as non-linear video editing tools, will experience a real performance boost right out of the chute." Maybe means cache dependent, maybe as world speedos' Up, Cache Size Is Weak Spot,Now. It won't be soon before increase there,However. Works best in Burst situations might be indication that MUCH More Cache IS Needed for Overal Performance ?Boosting, that Is Cache will take Branching deeper into RUn Position..

Now if there just where workable Sata III controllers.

DRASHEK

Having had five (or was it six???) failed Seagate HDDs in the last two years, I don't think I'll bother with this turkey.

My last drive to fail was a refurbished replacement of a refurbished replacement which Seagate, this time, refused to replace. In fact, their website didn't even recognized the serial number and their tech support was basically silent.

My money is on Western Digital now.

WD rocks! I can't wait until they come out with an SSD. They acquired SiliconSystems back in March to enter the market, but they haven't released anything yet.

I had an older 120GB Seagate die in a server & a 1 month old 1.5TB Seagate die as well, I'm done. I'm switching out my drives to WD Caviar Black. Zero problems & a very nice speed increase.

I'd like to see a failure rate comparision if one exists. I've actually had good luck with seagate and western digital, maxtor not so much, and years ago I had several quantum fireballs burn out (appropriately named), but on the whole I've been pretty lucky.

Lots of bad words against Seagate, and to be honest I've avoided them for years since the pre-gigabyte days when I spent most of my working week changing drive after drive on customer sites.

Unfortunately WD had some issues recently too. The 400gig RE2 drive had a terrible record with me. I even lost a RAID 5 array once because a second drive failed before it had completed rebuilding from the first drive death!

After that I rebuilt it with the 500gig RE2 drives, and they died even quicker! Even a spare one that I put into a removable USB drive enclosure died, so it wasn't a problem with my raid hardware.

So much for paying extra for raid edition drives.

Even more worrying was there were plenty of blog entries about the problems, but none of the techie press mentioned a thing about it... Too scared?

After that I set up two machines in raid, mirroring each other and took the "I" from RAID literally (inexpensive) and used Samsung spinpoint F1 drives... Over a year later I haven't has a single drive failure.

Seagate has announced plans to engineer SSD drives soon enough, NO Exact Dates are given , so might be bit of push out there. its too bad Seagate SATA III drives actually run slower than some Sata II & certainly less than SSD. Hoping for better luck with SSD.

DRASHEK

Asus may have answer to first loss of sata III intro with new spiffy controller card & really neat marvel controller upgrade here:

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9926.html

Not to Knock Seagate Before Credible testing, This might be solution, its retro item for springtimes Sata 6 gb/s Cebacle of mains that where from same mfg.

DRASHEK

To expensive, would it be as fast a 2 x 1tb raid 0?

What's the point of SATA 6 Gbps when this drive won't even saturate SATA 1.5 Gbps?

Even considering burst speed, it won't saturate SATA 3.0 Gbps.

And what's with people calling this SATA III? Last I checked, SATA II wasn't ever fully implemented - just the speed bump to 3.0 Gbps.

I had great service from Seagate on all fronts for about five years. During that time I bought thirty-one of their drives in various sizes. But, two things happened starting about two years ago: I got me first of the "thin" drives and older "thick" drives began to fail.

The drive that was replaced with two refurbished units was a thin drive. The two refurbs were thin and now all three have failed.

There comes a time when confidence just drops out the bottom and you move to a different supplier; in my case that's WD. But the truth is I have no confidence in any of the drive makers since all they're really trying to improve is size. They all sound like the early morning (in the USofA) infomercials hawking penis enhancement drugs and devices. Damn folks, at my age (I'm retired) I just want the damn thing to work! And that's basically my feeling toward HDD makers, just make them work well and work a long time. If I need more space I'll but another drive. But to put all their "new" ideas and efforts into size enhancement seems to be to the detriment of reliability. And there are no little blue pills for drive reliability problems. :+)

That's because SATA II isn't a drive standard, it's the name of the organisation behind SATA (or it was until they changed the name to SATA IO). It's a bit like IDE received speed bumps to 66MB, then 100MB, then 133MB, but it was never referred to as "IDE II", "IDE III" etc.

SATA is just SATA. Later revisions support newer features such as the increased interface speeds, NCQ and the like, but there's no such thing as "SATA II", "SATA III" and the likes.

Why would anyone want a 'slacker' of a HDD to use for high end gaming?

Who needs 2TB storage on a lousy 7200
speed anyway?
It does precisely nothing in terms of playing games,all the hdd does, is load the friggin game.
In any case,if you want something that works,instead of polluting the scrapyards of India with junk, try a superior hard drive, like the WESTERN DIGITAL VelociRaptor X, or just stick to playing Minesweeper.

Msr glass must Hot Swap, as thats about only way to burn on out & that takes about three blotched hot swaps. Really, turn power off when doing anything inside case., never touch any pins & work on FLAT surface thats Horizontal. Doug might have wibbling hands & fingers that cause hot swap to go sour.

apparently plugging in 1.5 or 3 gb/s into 6 gb/s plug is ?pk & vice versa, that may be entire crimp.

seems useless & waste of time standard improvement, unless someone figures out whats wrong. there should be 600 Mb/s advantage, in line with ScSi or at least better than SAS. so Far, Its Far from that.

Setting standards before stuff works is stupid & way to charge bogus fee. maybe sata is on way out.

rejoice in SSD standard, if that isn't hack'd.

western Digital IS Less Quality, easier to break, than Seagate. Yet You Can Easily break Ethier.

DRASHEK

SOME OF NEW GAMES ARE NEAR dvd IN QUALITY, YET mINE sWEEPER IS fUn, kA bOOM.As USB 3 & Pci-e 3 incorporate, SATA 6 Gb/s will be Pressed into Proper Service or World will Move On, As Paying Twice As Much for Unit tThat Hasn't Made Specs IS STUPID.