Seagate Unleashes World's First 1.5TB Hard Disk Drives

[zippyjuan]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20080711215008_Seagate_Unleashes_World_s_First_1_5TB_Hard_Disk_Drives.html

Seagate Unleashes World's First 1.5TB Hard Disk Drives.
Seagate Increases Hard Drive Capacity to 1500GB

Category: Storage

by Anton Shilov

[ 07/11/2008 | 09:50 PM ]


Seagate Technoogy, the world's largest producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Friday unveiled the world's first hard disk drive with 1.5TB capacity. The new product features four platters with record capacities.


The new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB (1500GB) hard drive features four 375GB platters, another world's record. Like other leading-edge Seagate HDDs, the novelty sports 7200rpm motor, 16MB or 32MB of cache as well as NCQ technology. The new hard disk drives are designed for Serial ATA-300 interface.

Like all large capacities HDDs, the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB utilizes platters featuring perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR).

"Organizations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new applications and demand for desktop and notebook computers with unprecedented storage capacity, performance and reliability. Seagate is committed to powering the next generation of computing today with the planet’s fastest, highest-capacity and most reliable storage solutions," said Michael Wingert, Seagate executive vice president and general manager, personal compute business.

Shipments of the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB are set to begin August 2008. Pricing is yet unknown. The 7200.11 family also features capacities of 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, 500GB, 320GB and 160GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.


X-Bit Labs has a roundup of one terra byte drives here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/1tb-hdd-roundup.html

[johnnymk]

It is still cheaper to buy two 500 GB hard drives versus a 1 TB drive, and probably way cheaper to buy three of them versus the new 1.5 TB drive.

[nate el bueno]

I don't know, if you know where to shop, maybe. Working at Fry's, I see 500 GB drives sell for 100-125, while the 1 TB drives sell for about 180 or so.

[zippyjuan]

You also face the risk of losing a much larger amount of data if your 1.5 tb drive fails. They were touting large drives like this as being better able to store the information for high definition programing like movies. But if I recall correctly the drive cannot access information fast enough to be able to play back an HD movie in real time. Maybe a couple of 500gb drives that can access information at the same time?

[Maarchk]

You also face the risk of losing a much larger amount of data if your 1.5 tb drive fails. They were touting large drives like this as being better able to store the information for high definition programing like movies. But if I recall correctly the drive cannot access information fast enough to be able to play back an HD movie in real time. Maybe a couple of 500gb drives that can access information at the same time?

If you raid the drives then yes it can read both at once and you'll get better reads. but if the movie is on 1 500 gb drive, it would depend on the read speeds and rpms of the drive.
I think i agree that harddrives do eventually die although they are doing better every day. I had a couple of 200 gbs. one had programs and one had media. The programs one died and i was sad. Had the media one died, (it had all my pictures, music, and some other things) I would have cried a lot. I am backing it up but i'm replacing the 200 gb with a 300 gb and i'll probably only move up slowly and incrementally with harddrives that have been out for awhile so i know they are solid.
These are cool, but losing 1.5 tb of info would probably mean losing absolutely every file i ever had or wanted.

Still cool though. And the article is good!
Good post! :cheers:

[johnnymk]

I bought two 500 GB SATA drives from ZipZoomfly two weeks ago for around $135 shipped.