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[Swiss James]

How much are we talking nowadays for say, an 80G drive?

[Gord]

80-100,000-ish depending on the brand, cache size, IDE/SATA, for an 80GB drive.

200GB drives range from 130-150,000.

[Swiss James]

You can buy 200 Gig hard drives now?!

Sheesh- and we're still walking around like monkeys, I expect jetpacks, and I expect them soon.

[thanks for the info]

[gajackson1]

Monkey indeed . . .I resemble that remark, Sir!

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Seagate Offers Record 400 GB Hard Drive

By Jennifer LeClaire
TechNewsWorld
11/17/04 2:05 PM PT

Seagate's native SATA interface technology with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) allows the Barracuda 7200.8 to match the performance of 10,000-rpm SATA drives without sacrificing capacity, and at a more economical cost per gigabyte, according to the company.

Seagate Technology hopes to super size its revenues with a hard disk drive targeting PC users that offers a whopping 400 GB of storage space and 133 GB on each platter.

Seagate says the Barracuda 7200.8 model is the world's highest-capacity PC hard drive with the highest data density and the fastest performance and the greatest reliability.

What would anyone need a 400 GB hard drive for? PC-based multi-media applications, like home video editing, movie downloading and TV shows from peer-to-peer networks are driving the demand for more storage capacity.

IDC analyst John Buttress told TechNewsWorld that this is a good move for Seagate for that very reason.

"Seagate's Barracuda 7200.8 competes well against Hitachi's (NYSE: HIT) offering, and the 133 gigabytes per platter gives them an advantage on component counts other vendors don't have," Buttress said.


Native Command Queuing
Seagate's native SATA interface technology with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) enables the Barracuda 7200.8 to match the performance of 10,000-rpm SATA drives without sacrificing capacity, and at a much more economical cost per gigabyte, according to the company.

Seagate said the Barracuda 7200.8 with NCQ benefits high-performance PC applications such as gaming systems and workstations, PC-based home media servers and entry-level SATA servers.

NCQ is designed to make booting, application loading and file copying faster for everyday mainstream users.

NCQ also provides Hyper-Threading Technology, which allows multiple applications to send I/O requests at the same time. The company said NCQ boosts performance still more when applications take advantage of Asynchronous I/O.

Seagate claims NCQ also increases drive reliability in heavy workloads by eliminating much of the mechanical wear and tear that a non-NCQ drive must endure to transfer the same amount of data.

Are all these claims kosher? Buttress said Seagate's reputation is solid and the platform is mature.

"Seagate has increased aerial density, and with the SATA version, they have the Native Command Queuing and all those features you want to see in higher-performing drives," Buttress said.

Quiet Killer
Barracuda 7200.8 provides 8 MB or 16 MB cache sizes, a 7,200-rpm spin speed, and an 8.0-msec average seek time. With Seagate's patented SoftSonic fluid dynamic bearing motors, the company said Barracuda 7200.8 is extremely quiet.

Seagate's Barracuda 7200.8 offers capacities of 200GB, 250GB, 300GB and 400 GB, and the option of a native SATA interface or an Ultra ATA interface.

_> Gord, Demo, et al. - opinions on this?

[Swiss James]

400Gigs,, MY GOD MAN- SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!

[mindmetoo]

[eamo]

I need never delete 'black guys on white girls anal cum bukkake' again!!!

[Dalton]

Today I bought a seagate 120 gb, sata, 8mb for 95,000. Standing at the foot of the outdoor market, facing the building, go to the building entrance to the left and look at the showcase on your left, beside that entrance. I also got a black dual layer, LG, DVD burner (12X) for 102,000. You can buy dual layer dvd-r disks for 10,000 in the building across the street. 8.5 gb which is good for some movies.

[itaewonguy]

yep saturdays and sundays are a very time to shop on the out door market. yeah its about 80.000 won for a 80gig hdd..
guess 1000 won per gig so to speak..
I bought my 120 gig hdd for 120.000
and I bought my 80gighdd for 80.000
I have western digital.. 7200 8mb..
IM gonna have to buy a 400 gig soon..

[Demophobe]

Yep....buy a 400GB drive, so when it does go south, you can lose even more data....

I'd be buying an 8x, dual-layer DVD burner right after that purchase....

[eamo]

Is it fairly straightforward to slot in an additional hard drive and run it with your existing one?

[itaewonguy]

[Demophobe]

[Swiss James]

[Gord]