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The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM combines proven components, state-of-the-art technology and industry-leading manufacturing expertise to deliver 1TB of high-performing, eco-friendly digital storage.

Just £89.69 Inc. VAT

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wouldn't mind seeing some benchmarks! Feel free to do a review on this drive slackworth.

Any news on a 500gb single platter drive? or a 2tb 4 platter drive?
 
clocka said:
wouldn't mind seeing some benchmarks! Feel free to do a review on this drive slackworth.

Any news on a 500gb single platter drive? or a 2tb 4 platter drive?
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Hi, there's already been a single platter 500gb drive online for a while now from Seagate here: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-206-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940

Western Digital have a 2tb drive under their green label here: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-263-WD&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279
 
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nice, didnt realise ocuk had the 500gb version, will try and find some benchmarks. Yeah i know WD have their 2tb green version but green drives are slow and really expensive.
 
there will be new smaller size hard drive for desktop from 3.5" to 2.5" and laptop will be new 1.8" in the future to make slim case and more greener so just read any latest news - I would wait after 2010 cos it will be good one and aviod spend too much money if buy just now.
 
so who will be the first to get one of these?

im not gonna risk it due to seagates problems with thier 7200.11 drives dropping dead.
 
looks rather poor in that review:(

might upgrade to WD black 500gb platters or WD RE4's if/when those ever come out. My wd re3's in raid0 are pretty quick, SSD is still way too expensive for good ones like ocz vertex.
 
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We've tested these and they seemed relatively quick but haven't had a chance to do any benchmarks.

The WD RE3 are going to remain until at least 2010. 500GB/pp Black will be next quarter hopefully.
 
in the review they seem pretty slow for most tasks except reading large files, i'll hold out for WD black 500gb/pp drives i think. Shame harddrives with 1gb flash arent coming out, we were promised hybrid drives around 2yrs but seems that never happened and SSD's came out instead.
 
I'm interested in possibly buying one in the next couple of months as a new backup drive when reviews have been posted and I have some money. Will the indroductory price remain or will they become more expensive again after an introductory period?
 
the price would go down slowly over time assuming the exchange rate doesnt change much. I'd get a wd black if i were you, similar price to the 7200.12's but better speed overall.
 
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We've also learned that Seagate has optimized the 7200.12's seek mechanism to lower acoustics. This so-called "quiet" seek mode is set at the factory and can't be adjusted by end users, and it has some significant performance implications that will become clear on the following pages.
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I think the above explains quite well why the performance is slightly less than expected. They're probably going to unlock the full potential of the 500Gb platter speed (and therefore increased acoustics) in their enterprise products.
 
Wasn't there a review recently stating that those recent Hitachi 1TB drives were the ones to go for? Personally I've still not gotten round to grabbin me some TBs for storage
 
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Wasn't there a review recently stating that those recent Hitachi 1TB drives were the ones to go for? Personally I've still not gotten round to grabbin me some TBs for storage
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The 7k1000.b drives are quite good, 375gb platters :) Not the 500GB platters as in the Seagates but the access times are much better. I have the two of the 2platter 750GB drives in RAID 0.

As you can see, performance is good and access times don't suffer. OCUK also have the 1TB 7k1000.B drives for sale at a good price.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-049-HI&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279
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i'm sticking with my ssd's for the time being (i can't see mechanical drives ever matching SSD access times any time in the future but that MB sec transferre rate looks better than these SSD's at the minute until the space gets used up more) but i would imagine that samsung/western digital will be along anytime with a 2 platter 1TB drive and just as good ,if not better performance at the same price or just a few quid lower.
 
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If you trust Tomshardware (1TB drives):

Performance
WD Black - Fastest application drive - runs very hot

Mainstream / All-round
Hitachi 7K1000.B - balanced performance - good idle power

Storage
Samsung F1 / Seagate 7200.11 - superior sequential throughput - high power consumption when idle
Seagate rep hurt by recent firmware but should be fine now

Hitachi was never even on my radar but is the one I will go for now. Having said that I own 2x Samsung F1 and I am very happy with them. The fact that they gobble lots of power even when idle is not something I focus on when using my (highly overclocked) pc ;o)

Why then dont I go WD Black? - hoping to convince myself to hit the SSD buy button soon for app performance.
 
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