New Seagate 750GB and 960 GB SATA drives

I should have my eval drives in the next week or so for the Seagate 750GB sata. My Seagate rep didn't have many details on this yet other than that I should get my eval drives before the end of the month and they would be shipping through distribution starting in late June. He also hinted at a 960GB drive being the next capacity point and that it is already in the works. I'll have some more details and benchmarks when my eval drives hit my dock.

*splooge*

Maybe its time to upgrade my 2x160gb's soon

On snap, terrabyte drives are right around the corner

And to think that my first harddrive was only 60mb.

960GB = weak! I want my 1TB drive!

anyone know how much harddrives like this would/will cost?

thisi s the main reason i buy drives as i need them. a 300-400 a month does me pretty good. as i dont want to splurge ona huge lot of drives. which is what i want lol. cause I'd rather splurge on a tb or 2 drive hehe.

imagine the psu you will need for multiples of these.

Since the rage machines are so bloody voer priced im sure he will be the first to push a 20TB system. lol

Hmm, probably a 5-platter and a 4-platter at 187GB/platter. Seagate pushes the density again! It'll be interesting to see if they've dug themselves out of the seek time grave they've got going there.

simply ming boggling

Man...and I thought getting to the 500GB plateau was insane...it goes to show that technology is never stagnant. I'm curious what kind of performance these new drives will get

Wonder if these new drives are using that new perpendicular data stuff...

GODDAMNIT....I just got my WD 500GB drive today. @#)%^*()@

Originally Posted by acascianelli

Wonder if these new drives are using that new perpendicular data stuff...

Definately. It sounds like the kind of increase that you get going perpendicular. The 1in drives went from 8gigs to 12gigs. And the 2.5in drives went from about 100 or 120 gigs, to 160.

Originally Posted by acascianelli

Wonder if these new drives are using that new perpendicular data stuff...

That's what I'm thinking. I don't think they'd be able to hit the required densities without it.

This is VERY odd, A long while ago I reported that MDG Canada has been selling machines with free "750gb hard drive" upgrades.. this is actually true? How could they have them already?

Originally Posted by GodSpeed

This is VERY odd, A long while ago I reported that MDG Canada has been selling machines with free "750gb hard drive" upgrades.. this is actually true? How could they have them already?

They're probably doing RAID 0 with the elusive 375GB HDD.

They don't say that on the site, this has been on there for a while (look for 750): http://www.mdg.ca/en/products/aptondesktop_line.asp

Ps. Anyone know the estimated price of these new drives? I'm salivating.

Originally Posted by Dutt1113

anyone know how much harddrives like this would/will cost?

from 250 GB to 500 the equation is

y = 1.01 x - 145.32

where y = HDD price and x = GiB

extrapolating to an x of 750 (698.49 GiB) gives a y of $560.00

x of 960 (894.07 GiB) gives a y of $750.00

it's hard to say how much they will cost

the relationships between GiB and price per GiB is more logarithmic and exponential than linear

if i had a ti calc that would do logarithmic and exponential regression i could get better numbers for ya

My batteries are dead, but that doesn't stop me (you'll also need the ROM from TI). For the sake of argument I'll use Seagate 7200.9s for the analysis. The following values are taken from Newegg, just for the sake of argument.
[[51,75,135,270]
[80,120,300,500]]->d
Using a cubic approximation:
y1(750)=896
y1(960)=2135
Using a quadratic approximation:
y1(750)=511
y1(960)=781

Take those values with a grain of salt, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the 960GB version up near $750.