The few that work aggressively in hard disk drive technology are Samsung, Hitachi and Seagate. Samsung is the one that we know to have produced the 1TB hard disk that they claimed to be very much ahead of the two, as it works on three platters only. Whereas the two, Hitachi and Seagate need five and four platters for their 1TB drive respectively.
Yesterday, Seagate just announced that they’ll be shipping in volume for their 1TB Barracuda drive during the third quarter for $399 only. And they claimed that their technology that works on 4 platters for the 1TB drive allows them for mass production. According to Seagate, Hitachi’s five-platter 1TB hard drive is an old technology and Samsung’s three-platter gives low production yield, which mass production is not possible for the time being. Seagate’s 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 drive is capable of 105MB/s sustained transfer rate, which is the highest ever. The drive also has low power rating of 8 watts at idle and acoustics as low as 2.7 Bels, hardly for the human ear to pick up, an average seek times of 8.5 ms and 32MB cache. There will also be one version for the enterprise, which the power consumption is 20% less, one version optimized for surveillance market and another one drive for the PVR market.
The conclusion is Seagate is pretty confident that they’ll finally be ahead of the two, to become the first in shipping the most 1TB drives by September, despite Hitachi announced their 1TB very early ahead of them and Samsung’s claim to have better technology. So, lets keep an eye on this.
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June 25th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Any review out there comparing all those features and REAL lowest retail price for thre three makers?
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1000GB SATA II (HDS721010KLA330)
June 25th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
hey will try to have one later
June 30th, 2007 at 6:50 am
where can i buy the samsung f1? is it available as an external drive?
Gary