100GB per Platter from Seagate

[Clocker]

Saw this on AT:

Seagate Announces World's Highest Areal Density Hard Drive At 100GB Per Platter

Press Releases | Brandon Hill on Sep 16th, 2003 3:11 PM from Anandtech Forums

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—16 September 2003— Leapfrogging the hard drive industry in storage density, Seagate (NYSE: STX) today introduced the world's first hard drive to store 100 Gbytes of data on a single 3.5-inch platter. With the industry's most advanced head and media technology, the new addition to the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 family achieves a 200-Gbyte capacity using only two platters, and offers the choice of a Parallel ATA (PATA) or native Serial ATA (SATA) interface. The Barracuda 7200.7 is the industry's first hard drive family capable of supporting SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ). NCQ will be implemented on production Barracuda 7200.7 SATA hard drives when system architectures that support NCQ become more broadly available. NCQ is a feature that can only be implemented on native Serial ATA hard drives like Seagate's.

Seagate demonstrated SATA NCQ technology on its new 200GB Barracuda 7200.7 SATA hard drive today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose, Calif. NCQ technology enables the hard drive to intelligently reorder and optimize both read and write command execution, improving the performance of queued workloads by minimizing mechanical positioning latencies on the drive.

 

[Pradeep]

Mmmm, 4 platters for 400GB? We can only hope.

 

[Mercutio]

No one seems to be doing 4 platter drives any more.

 

[CougTek]

Mmmm, 4 platters for 400GB? We can only hope.

Make that : "We can only dream".

The seek time of this drive (the real one, not the advertised one) must be quite poor. Still hope it isn't so bad to make it slower overall than the current 7200.7. At least it's only available with an 8MB buffer. The actual 7200.7 with 8MB cache is doing quite well in SR's benchmark. Not beating WD, but still close.

 

[Mickey]

No one seems to be doing 4 platter drives any more.

Maxtor still has a 4 platter at 5400 rpm, don't they? The 320 and 300 GB drives seem pretty hard to find, though.

 

[LunarMist]

No one seems to be doing 4 platter drives any more.

Maxtor still has a 4 platter at 5400 rpm, don't they? The 320 and 300 GB drives seem pretty hard to find, though.

The 300 GB drives are readily available at retailers such as CompUSA. The 320 GB drives seem to be scarce, and oddly, are no longer mentioned on the Maxtor web site.