by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2004
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ViperLair tests out the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 which just so happens to feature Native Command Queuing support which can boost drive performance quite a bit and is one of the more compelling reasons to swith to Serial-ATA. Then again…
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by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2004
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The Tech Report has a snazzy little drive on the review block today in the form of a 2.5″ drive from Seagate named Savvio. The drive has a spin speed of 10,000RPM besting the majority of 3.5″ desktop drives and…
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by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2004
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Gamers Depot has the skinny on Seagate’s newest Barracuda hard drive. This 160GB, Serial-ATA unit sports Native Command Queuing feature which allows the drive to access data out of order which gives it a bit of a performance boost. A…
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by Rafael Hernandez on August 2, 2004
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Storage Review does their usual, exhaustive testing on three hard drives in their work shop. Western Digital, Seagate, and Hitachi are in the lineup this time with drive sizes coming in at 250, 200, and 400GB respectively. All three perform…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2004
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Seagate is extending the warranty for most of their hard drive lines manufactured after June 1st. The coverage length for drives is now 5 years instead of the rather short 1 year period which most drive manufacturers had adopted as…
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by Rafael Hernandez on June 29, 2004
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Think Computers has a look at the Vantec NexStar external hard drive chassis. The sleek unit can take most any 3.5″ hard drive and allows you to access it by either of its two Firewire ports or the USB 2.0…
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by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2004
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Seagate has been playing spoil sport recently with its entry into the micro hard drive market and now a 400GB, 7200RPM native Serial-ATA hard disk. They also toss in 16MB of buffer memory in this behemoth of a drive. Their…
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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2004
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Yahoo! News has details on Seagate’s planned entrance into the micro hard drive market which had been, for the most part, the sole domain of Hitachi’s (formerly IBM’s) hard drive division. Competition spurs innovation and pricing pressure, a good thing…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 17, 2004
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TheTechLounge took a look at the Seagate ST3160023AS, a 160GB, 7200RPM hard drive that uses the Serial ATA interface. The SATA connection offers a few advantages over the old Parallel ATA setup speed wise but, for the moment, its greatest…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 30, 2004
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GamePC has tested Western Digital’s SerialATA WD740 10kRPM drive against Seagate’s monster of a Cheetah X15.3 15kRPM Ultra320 SCSI drive. Doesn’t seem like a fair contest but when you figure in price-to-performance ratios the SerialATA drive isn’t a bad looking…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2004
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vnunet.com has a bit on Seagate’s Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording technology which could boost the capacity of magnet storage drives (hard drives to you and me) to insane proportions. They think their technology can scale to 50Tb per square inch…
Read more Seagate's Big Storage Idea