750-Gig HD

Seagate Announces 750-Gig HD

Posted Apr 26, 2006, 3:32 PM ET

Seagate beefs up a new 750-gigabyte Barracuda hard disk



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Seagate Technology LLC has announced a new hard disk drive that can store 750 gigabytes of data. The drive is called the "Barracuda 7200.10" and is the first computer desktop disk drive to hit 750 gigs. The capacity represents a 50 percent increase from the previous industry maximum of 500 gigabytes.

Seagate also plans to introduce versions for other consumer electronics, such as digital video recorders that are growing in popularity as standalone set-top-boxes or part of cable and satellite television receivers.

For consumers, the beefier drives mean they can store more movies, photos, games and songs with less worry about quickly running out of space. They also could have larger backup drives to ensure against data loss when their drives crash. (Seagate offers a five-year warranty on its drives.)

Analysts say a 750-gigabyte drive could hold roughly 375 hours of standard-definition television programming, about 75 hours of high-definition video, or more than 10,000 music CDs converted to the MP3 digital audio format. For the hard drive industry, the capacity milestone pegs the biggest, fastest jump in its 50-year history.

The Seagate suggested retail price of the new Barracuda 7200.10 is $559.

 

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A company called Lacie has officially unveiled a one terabyte hard drive. The 5.25" drive, which should become available in February, will sell for about US$1,200. This 11-pound device supports USB 2.0 and FireWire, and has an average seek time of only 10 milliseconds. The price/capacity ratio of this device (over $1 per gigabyte) isn't particularly impressive, and the drive's 7,200 RPM mean that data access may not be quite as fast as with the 10,000 and 15,000 RPM drives that are now available. Nevertheless, Lacie's announcement indicates just how far disk storage capacities have increased during the past half century.



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grunt

 

Overkill. Atleast for right now.

 

Not bad for a storage drive. You could back up all kinds of data to it, and if you consider the number of DVDs being ripped to drives even it could fill quickly.

 

id rather have three 250's for half the price.

 

i have a linkstation (from buffalo) and it's pretty nice. 250gb, tho i can stack on another drive via usb to up that amount. the cool part is that it's on my gigabit network so it's pretty fast and all my machines can see it (since it's on all the time). it's a linux box at heart and there's a hacking community that is adding features (like nfs which it sadly lacks right out of the box). it'd be sweet to get a tivo server running on the thing (instead of their proprietary linktheater thing).

 

I'll say.

 

i want one in my DVR

 

I talked to a salesman at radio shack, and he said "128K is all you will ever need" then he sold me this sweet cassette deck that I simply plug into my TSR-80 and I can backup as much data as I want! suckers!