“Seagate’s latest Barracuda 7200.11 is the first hard drive to reach 1.5 terabytes. With 375GB platters, it should be pretty quick, too. Join us as we pit the latest capacity milestone against a collection of the fastest, highest capacity Serial ATA drives on the market.”Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Vizo Luxon Advanced SD HDD Enclosure @ Hardware Bistro
- Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB Hard Drive @ ExtremeTech
- Eagle Technology L-Series 2.5-inch HDD Enclosure @ OCModShop
- Kingston DataTraveler 150 32GB @ DVHardware
- Patriot Memory 32GB Xporter XT @ Overclockers Online
- Western Digital 300GB VelociRaptor Hard Drive Review Rev. 2.0 @ TechARP
- Unitek SATA HDD Multi-Function Dock @ Hardware Bistro
- Intel’s New Solid State Disks In RAID 0, A Case Study in Speed @ HotHardware
- Samsung BD-P1500 Blu-ray Player Review @ Digital Trends
- Thecus N5200BR NAS Server @ Gamepyre
- Norco Technologies DS-1000 Storage System Review @ Virtual-Hideout
Thinking big with Seagate
Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB runs about $190, or roughly 13 cents per gigabyte. It has four 375GB platters and a 32MB cache which offers some strange results. The 7200.11 series have never been the fastest drives, especially writing, and the extra size of the platters has slowed the seek times down. It is the cheapest way to get a huge amount of storage in a standard drive, which will mean a lot to some who are far more concerned by size than speed. See the benchmarks for yourself at The Tech Report.
