Seagate just announced the shipment of the Barracuda XT, the fastest 2TB drive with the Serial ATA 6Gbit/Second interface and 64Mb cache. This new SATA specification uses the current cables and connectors for easy integration but it needs a compatible motherboard which is currently manufactured by Asus and Gigabyte. The best thing is that it is backward compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s, so you can use the drive now and change your motherboard later to make full use of the 6Gb/s transfer speed.
This is the Third Generation SATA technology, called Serial ATA International Organization: Serial ATA Revision 3.0 or SATA Revision 3.0, which should be named SATA 6Gb/s drives to avoid confusion.
http://www.serialata.org/developers/naming_guidelines.asp
Details here: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/seagate-ships-worlds-fastest-desktop-hard-drive-first-drive-to-feature-serial-ata-6gbitsecond-technology-2009-09-21
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Seagate is still the leader in hard disk drive technology
According to Maximum PC: “Barracudas eat Caviar for breakfast”
From the test results of Maximum PC, the Seagate Barracuda Low Powered 2TB drives performed better overall against Western Digital's Caviar Green.
The Barracuda has 20% faster sustained transfer speed, the speed for transferring large files. It also consume less power without sacrificing speed, which means you save electricity and your drive is cooler. Random access read times are faster, but write times are slower. Also, the burst read speed, as its name suggests, the sudden reading of a file, is slower. Despite that, the PCMark Vantage score, a test for measuring common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, videos, music and other media and gaming ranked higher. This means the drive performs faster overall.
Details here: http://maximumpc.coverleaf.com/maximumpc/200910?pg=77&pm=2&fs=1#pg77
From the test results of Maximum PC, the Seagate Barracuda Low Powered 2TB drives performed better overall against Western Digital's Caviar Green.
The Barracuda has 20% faster sustained transfer speed, the speed for transferring large files. It also consume less power without sacrificing speed, which means you save electricity and your drive is cooler. Random access read times are faster, but write times are slower. Also, the burst read speed, as its name suggests, the sudden reading of a file, is slower. Despite that, the PCMark Vantage score, a test for measuring common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, videos, music and other media and gaming ranked higher. This means the drive performs faster overall.
Details here: http://maximumpc.coverleaf.com/maximumpc/200910?pg=77&pm=2&fs=1#pg77
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