147GB Seagate Sata II 15,000rpm !!!!!!!!!! £530!!

SpudMaster · 14 Nov 2006 at 21:34

147Gb Seagate ST3146854SS Cheetah SAS SATA300 HDD 15Krpm

No ETA, competitors are now selling this:

Manufacturer: Seagate
Capacity: 147 Gb
Edition: Cheetah 15K.4
Physical Size: 3.5"
Rotation Speed: 15000 rpm
Cache: 16MB
Access Time: 3.5 ms
Interface: SATA300

Specs: http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/1,1081,693,00.html
Detailed Specs: http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/enterprise/tech/1,1084,693,00.html

hope some reviews are out soon, looks tasty, but VERY expensive!!!

Messiah Khan · 14 Nov 2006 at 21:43

Where did you get SATA300 from? Thats a SAS drive, not a SATA drive. SAS drives will need contoller cards or very expensive server motherboards. The SAS controllers can however support SATA drives as well.

rpstewart · 14 Nov 2006 at 21:45

messiah khan said:
Where did you get SATA300 from?

We had this same discussion a few weeks back. IIRC said competitors site has it labelled up wrong, the drive is, as you say, SAS only.

SpudMaster · 14 Nov 2006 at 21:51

yeah, just noticed that!

Slackworth · 14 Nov 2006 at 23:18

I suspect our competitors will be getting drives back.

If anything like this was released we'd be the first to have it! Seagate will never enter this high performance home market as they completely destroy the other vendors when it comes to Enterprise market share.

I already have details of the new Raptor.

SkeeterUK · 14 Nov 2006 at 23:41

Screw raptors im waiting for them new hard drives that use ram like chips so no moving parts.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/12/samsung_16gb_nand_flash/

Cyber-Mav · 14 Nov 2006 at 23:52

SkeeterPSA said:
Screw raptors im waiting for them new hard drives that use ram like chips so no moving parts.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/12/samsung_16gb_nand_flash/

after my last failed seagate drive i bought a raptor 150giger. but i would pay up to 300 quid for a 40gig flash drive. one then NEVER fails on me. :mad:

Tute · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:16

Slackworth said:
I already have details of the new Raptor.

Explain plz!

Sumanji · 15 Nov 2006 at 15:08

Slackworth said:
I already have details of the new Raptor.

Please, do tell more!

Massive Attack · 15 Nov 2006 at 15:12

Hmmmm this sounds very farmiliar to me, the drive is infact SAS not SATA 300

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17636133&highlight=147gb+seagate

SpudMaster · 15 Nov 2006 at 19:36

Sumanji said:
Please, do tell more!

I want to know too!!!

Slackworth · 15 Nov 2006 at 21:53

It's not 100% final but it looks like they'll be bypassing the 32MB Cache.

Sumanji · 15 Nov 2006 at 21:58

Cyber-Mav · 15 Nov 2006 at 22:27

im guessing that the next raptor will be part flash drive and the rest regular platter drive.

Tute · 16 Nov 2006 at 09:52

Slackworth said:
It's not 100% final but it looks like they'll be bypassing the 32MB Cache.

32?

But we're only at 16MB so far? Aren't we? :eek:

rpstewart · 16 Nov 2006 at 10:32

Tute said:
32?

But we're only at 16MB so far? Aren't we?

Yeah, nothing to stop them putting a huge cache on there, in the grand scheme of things even 1Gb isn't going to be expensive to add to the drive. It doesn't even need to be hugely fast RAM as long as it can be read at 300Mb/s.

I think we're now coming to a point that the manufacturers are struggling to get more performance out of purely mechanical storage. Seagate and others have 15K rpm SCSI disks out they're noisy, hot and power hungry. The logical course of action for WD would be to take an existing physical design that they know is reliable and add something too it to enhance performance. A big cache and some intelligent algorithms could give a serious boost to more sustained reads than the current caches can cope with.

Greenlizard0 · 16 Nov 2006 at 13:45

Slackworth said:
It's not 100% final but it looks like they'll be bypassing the 32MB Cache.

Sizes???? Aw come on - you can't leave us hanging like this!!!! :eek:

Messiah Khan · 16 Nov 2006 at 16:33

I hope they release a new 36Gb Raptor. I was going to buy a 16mb cache one, but might hold out if they are going to relaese an even better one. Any estimate on release dates etc Slackworth?

Sumanji · 16 Nov 2006 at 17:09

No other tech site has any mention of this, so I'm guessing this is a bit of speculation...?

p4radox · 16 Nov 2006 at 17:13

messiah khan said:
I hope they release a new 36Gb Raptor. I was going to buy a 16mb cache one, but might hold out if they are going to relaese an even better one. Any estimate on release dates etc Slackworth?

I've got to admit, a 36Gb Raptor would be the only one to tempt me if I was building a new PC. The larger capacities are too expensive, and I'd only install an OS and some games on it anyway.