Name: XpUser Date: November 17, 2004 at 12:20:19 Pacific Subject: Do you really need this 400GB HD? OS: XP Home & PRO (All SP2) CPU/Ram: Rig 1: 2.02GHz/512RAM R
This drive is the fourth member of Seagate's Barracuda 7200.8 series and is available in two versions, one with an Ultra ATA/100 interface and one with a Serial ATA interface. The rotational speed of the disc is 7,200 rpm, with an average seek time of 8 milliseconds.
The Serial ATA version supports a technology called Native Command Queuing (NCQ), which allows the drive to manage multiple commands from the PC in whatever order it deems most efficient. Until now, drives handled read and write requests in the order they were received. With NCQ technology, users of the Serial ATA version of the Barracuda drive with systems that support NCQ will see performance closer to that of a 10,000-rpm drive than that of a 7,200-rpm device, according to Seagate.
The disc includes three media platters, each capable of storing 133GB of data, which is a record for a drive designed for PCs, according to the company. Pricing wasn't announced.
Yo' XP... Well, for the average user I agree with you, the cost (I am sure it is high) isn't worth the huge amount of space since most folks don't need that kind of storage.
I can only think that those serious about video editing, music synthesis, etc. probably may get excited about it.
That thing's a real airplane hangar for space, isn't it?!
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Then industry pollutes the water and kills all the fish.
With a hdd that big you can store your neibors info your inlaws info,heck you can even store the inlaws inside the hdd.What happens when you try to defrag that monster?you get phone calls from customers asking after 3 hours of defragging the hdd:"Are we there yet"?Something is wrong with my hdd,it has been defragging for so long and it shoudln`t take this long."I think i have a virus,or spyware" can you come fix my hdd?peters response:sure i can,ill be right there....peters arrives at location at looks@ hdd while it is still defraging..customer: did you fix my hdd?peters: no mam! nothing is wrong with the hdd,it is still defragging...Customer: so you mean nothing was wrong all along?..Peters:yes mam!you might need a supercharged utility for this monster.Lol!!
Getting a 400GB is no different than getting a 40GB drive, if we think in terms of productivity. The reason a lot of users buy large drives is not because there is a dire need for it but rather technological advancements continues to make hard drive space available for almost next to nothing.
Think about it, if we wake up tommorrow and all of a sudden the cost of owning the average 5-bedroom, three baths is one-fiftieth of what it is right now, there will be a playboy mansion on every street.
400GB is nothing if you are into video editing. One of my computers has 1T of disk space,(4) 250 gig drives. I can fill it up in a long weekend of video editing.
I thought I saw a 500 gig drive somewhere the other day. Well, maybe it was a net storage device with two 250gig drives in it. I can't remember.
Okay I heard you all. Now how do you backup a 400GB? I am not speaking of the servers used in the corporate environment. I am focusing on the average users like us :-) Assuming the 400GB is all filled up and you want to backup, Would you:w
