Seagate's website has some information on their future Barracuda 7200.10 series. Capacities of up to 750GB with areal densities of up to 187.5GB per platter. Here are the Product datasheet, Marketing datasheet and the Model details. I'm interested in the 400GB with 2 platters. The datasheet says it has 3 platters and 5 heads, but the model number says it has 2 platters. The 320GB with 2 platters would be my next choice.

Discovered this info at Storage Review.

Greetings,

I wonder if these use the "perpendicular" system, for the magnetic fields?

[Edit: yes it does: http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,756,00.html]

Hi Neil,

Yep, it's a perpendicular drive. This introduction will give Seagate a perpendicular product in all 4 segments: enterprise, consumer electronics, laptop and now desktop.

I just hope that the 7200.10 has quieter seeks than my 7200.7 200GB SATA (which BTW should be classified as a torture device ).

The 7200.10 has just shown up in the Akihabara district of Tokyo.

http://akiba.ascii24.com/akiba/news/200 ... 5-000.html

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/ho ... gbhdd.html

I expect a 1 terabyte drive will be for sale by the end of this year. To put that in perspective, all the books in the Library of Congress only contain 20 terabytes of information. So you could get the whole of the Library of Congress in a stack of hard drives about 2ft high and 1ft across (with an adequate cooling mechanism).

Man, why do they still keep making ULTRA ATA stuff, moreover, why is it always released before SATA?

The US/UK/EU prices are:

750GB: £311 $555 E448
500GB: £189 $338 E272
320GB: SOLD OUT.??? (I cant read Japanese)

The 500GB is barely any more than the current 500GB 7200.9, which is how it should be. Once it becomes available to the rest of the world it should be about the same money.

The price of the 750GB is about what I guessed last week, I will imagine that in a few months the 400GB will come down to mainstream(ish) prices, as its still silly money per GB (almost as much per GB as the 500GB's).

The 500GB would land in its slot, and the 750GB can be priced as it is, as no-one else has anything that can compete with it (yet).

I dont know whether those prices include VAT or not, can anyone reading this read Japanese, it would be interesting to know.

BTW 4 of those 750GB drives would cost £1460 (VAT+- unknown), with RAID 5, that would make a storage solution of 2.2TB or about 1.95TB formatted (guesstimate).

That would be cool, I would NEVER need more storage just like I have NEVER needed more than 640K of RAM


Andy

The 320GB are 15,580 yen (3Gb/s sata2) or 15280 (1.5Gb/s)
which is approx 138 usd, 110 eur, 183 aud 76 gbp 155 cad at current spot rates.

Quoted prices in Japan are supposed to include 10% consumption tax, and I think akiba watch generally includes this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822148134

Thanks for all the input and currency conversions everyone. I'm anxiously awaiting some reviews of these drives, especially the 320GB. I found one at PCworld but I wouldn't really call it a review. One concern of mine is that the listed idle noise is 2.7bels.

FYI: PCworld.com stated that the SATA version ships in SATA-150 mode and that they had to switch a jumper to enable SATA-300 and NCQ.


Haha, ok sure 'Mr. Gates' Thanks for the link. I wonder if people realize that instead of spending $540 for a hard drive, they could spend $599 for a Dell 5150 with a 20" LCD. To each their own. Found that deal @ anandtech.

Take care.

Some reviews:
GamePC
Big Bruin
PC World Review
PC World Article

Some bad news:



It's possible that GamePC had a 'bad drive' but they tested two so I'm not so sure. The good news is that the drive had a seek time of 9.3ms in HD Tach (13.5ms-4.2ms latency) which is lower than Seagate's spec of 11ms.

Thanks for those reviews, Goldmember. The 750GB is debuting at the reasonable price of around $1/GB in Australia, and should fall pretty quickly as availability increases.

I hope it is a quiet HDD as I'll be looking to get one for my new computer, unless something bigger appears

You're welcome. I assume you mean $1/GB AUD. Over here, it's selling for around $499 USD or ~$.67/GB USD. As you said, the price should continue to drop as the supply grows. I rarely buy new hardware immediately anymore. I prefer to read some reviews first and then wait for the price to drop a little bit. Makes me feel better.

I'm looking for a new hard drive too, as my 7200.7 SATA is very annoying. It constantly does self-diagnostics and its seeks are very loud. I'm gonna use a wait and see approach on the 7200.10.

BTW, I really like your username dude! I'm planning to attend an air show this weekend. I'll be the guy with the earplugs lol.

AU$770 Hope they do drop quickly, given that a 7200.9 300Gb is AU$0.56 per Gb (half the cost). I still want one though.....

Yep. Nice easy number.


Me too. I'm pretty sure I'll get one, just hope the price falls real fast, which is presumably largely dependent on whether WD and Hitachi release their own large perpendicular HDDs (no idea what Maxtor will do since the Seagate buyout).


That doesn't sound too good (pun intended ). I had a Caviar many moons ago, think it was fine but it was too long ago to remember. Haven't had any problems with WD in the years I can remember, but I'm happy to try Seagate again - I have a lot of respect for their five-year warranty.


Thanks dude. I'm glad the USMC are keeping the Cobra/Viper alive! Have a good time at the air show but leave the earplugs at home - free way to silence your computer! The last time I went to Avalon was Feb 2001 (lol).


$749 at Scorptec. More should filter through staticICE in coming days. (I think the one for $770 also included shipping?) It can only get better

Available in the UK right now. SATA = Top Link, PATA = Bottom Link.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ ... e_191.html
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ ... s_157.html

Only the 750GB's, no 500's, or 320's.

Stock here soon.

Again, no sign of <750GB Drives.


Andy

Does it have AAM?

No Seagate drives on the market support AAM.

I believe tha last drive that supported AAM was the Cuda 4 (or was it the 5.!!!).

They have a patent issue with another HDD Manufacturer, and dropped support rather than be sued. I guess whoever owns tha Patent doesnt want Seagate to have the Tech, as they are easily the biggest Drive maker around.

I hope its Maxtor that owns it, as Seagate are Buying them, which will mean that Seagate drives will be able to support AAM in the future........... better phrased, Future Seagate drive will support AAM.

However, I think its Hitachi, as they are the only company that will let you download a tool that lets you change the AAM (am I right.???).


Andy

Does anyone else think it's disappointing that the .10 200GB will be 2 platters? I read that from storagereview forum. I guess it's because 187.5GB is the maximum density they managed for each platter. I was hoping for a single platter 200GB. I guess I'll just buy .9 160GB single platter HDD.

The company that sued them is called Convolve. The legal battle is still going, maybe one day Seagate wins and Barracudas will get AAM.

Cheers Doomer.

This is totally offtopic. But Im loosing my mind here, was the Average Latency 4.16ms vs Seek Time 11.0 ms vs random access time.
Thanks

True. If they don't have any competition then they can charge whatever they want. WD, in their most recent conference call, only said that they will release a PMR drive sometime in calendar 2006. In Maxtor's recent 10-Q they said the following,
We shall see.


Haha, very funny. I had a blast. The Cobra was surprisingly quiet, but the 2 Harriers reminded me of my old (1998?) Seagate Medalist drive with a bad ball bearing motor. Here is a gallery of the air show.

The same is true over here.


As andyb and Doomer said, it likely does not have AAM due to Seagate's legal dispute. Andy brought up a good point in that Seagate has likely acquired all of Maxtor's previous agreements, but contracts have a lot of 'what ifs' so we shall see. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

EDIT: forgot to mention that I own 2 Maxtor DM9s that support AAM.


Yeah I do. One 200GB platter would have been nice for SPCRers but it may be a moot point if the seeks are as loud as people are now reporting around the net. FYI, there is a thread about the .9 160GB that you should read first.


All 7,200rpm drives have 4.17ms rotational latency
All 10,000rpm drives have 3.00ms rotational latency
All 15,000rpm drives have 2.00ms rotational latency

When companies state a certain random access or seek time, they do not include the latency. For example, if you test your drive in HD Tach, subtract one of the appropriate latencies and it will give you your seek time or random access time. If the Seagate 7200.10 really had a seek time of 11ms, then the result in HD tach would have been 15.2ms. Hopefully someone else can explain it better than I did lol.

Hiya people.

A colleauge of mine should have a 750GB 7200.10 turning up at work tomorrow.

Has anyone on SPCR's forums listened to one.???

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, delivery guy just dropped off a load of stuff, including a 3/4 terabyte drive................... Cool

When I get a chance a little later I will have a listen, it wont be easy as we have builders in at the moment.!!!!


Andy

I think it's disappointing too ... because 200GB platters would enable a 1TB drive!

Dissapointing noise i'm afraid chaps and chapettes.

This drive is a 750GB, 698.6GB NTFS formatted SATA beast.

The long stroke seeks are of DM9+ quality: sharp, loud, aggressive, did I mention loud.!!!!

The short strokes are very muted, very much like the 7200.7's 8's, and 9's.

The idle noise as we have come to expect from Seagate drives is a pleasant broadband noise, more, whoosh than anything else, which is likely due to having 4 platters in this beast.

The vibration is relatively low, not as good as some, but this of course varies with every drive sample, even from the same batch.

The performance is exceptional, if anyone has tested a 7200.9 and been happy with the 7200.9's performance, this is faster still.

I will post a HD Tach screendump of a PATA 80GB 7200.9 vs the 750GB SATA beastie if someone can tell me how.


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andyb,

Thanks to you and your colleague for reviewing this 3/4 terabyte monster. In your opinion, would suspending the 7200.10 lower the seek noise enough for most of us?

Also, someone over at storage review said their 320GB SATA drive was loud at first and then quieted down after a few days. The 320GB is now in stock over here for a very tempting $.36/GB.

Off Topic but...It seems that the storage industry will continue to consolidate down to 2 or 3 players mirroring CPUs and GPUs. This means we will eventually have fewer choices for quiet hard drives. There is a column about this in CPU magazine.

Having never suspended a drive I dont know first hand just how much of an impact suspension has.

However being the proud owner or an "SPCR Edition" of the P180, I think that the triple layered sides + soft silicone grommets will reduce the idle noise to a very very slight amount.

However the noise seems to be airborne, and not vibration induced, so P180 and P150 owners will fair better than most.

As mentioned the vibration is relativley small, however I did NOT mention that the seeks are SO sharp that you can easily feel the movement when the drive is on a flat surface.

We had the drive placed on a hardish book, outside of the case, there didnt seem to be ANY noise difference when I was holding the drive to feel the vibration level.

I also didnt mention heat, the drive doesnt get very hot to the touch, after being run for a while in open air, I think this drive would be OK to suspend and not worry too much about it overheating, so long as it has active cooling (suspended drives run hotter).

I will let you know tomorrow whether the drive being in a P180 sounds quieter (my colleauge has a P180). Personally I think the long seeks will be easily audiable, the short seeks and idle noises will vanish.


Andy

Thanks for the initial review, andyb. It doesn't sound promising but I hope you get good results inside the P180. I'll be looking to put the drive in a Solo (P150).