Seagate perpendicular drive @ newegg

twoeyes · May 16, 2006

Anybody bought this baby yet?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148134

little educational video from hitachi: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

Looks to be dethroning the raptor actually! BTW sorry if this has been posted before.

Bios24 · May 16, 2006

$500 is quite a bit of money, that's 2x150gb raptors. Let the 500gb drop to about $150 and you'll see one of those bad boys in my sig. I'm just happy to see hard drives finally making some progress. We've been stuck with regular 7200rpm drives the last couple of years.

Edit- I just watchws that flash clip, and I'd like a refund on that 2 mins of my life. Anyone have some real infor about perp drives?

dicecca112 · May 17, 2006

actually in terms of storage its 5 times the storage at the same speeds. For the person that has to be on the bleeding edge, that may be worth it

deathman20 · May 17, 2006

Finally there starting to hit the market. When I do a system rebuild down the road next year ish I hope there will be more of these perpendicular drives on the market because thats what will go in my system.

Fr3@k3r · May 17, 2006

just wanted to point something out, Free 250GB hdd when you purchase this... which means you get 1TB of storage for $500

dicecca112 · May 17, 2006

yeah but also, you could get 6 250s for this price. 1.5tb of storage

boris_37 · May 17, 2006

yeah sure if you have 6 free sata ports, and places to mount them. Also i think i heard that perpendiculars are supposed to be 10%-30% faster than a regular 7200rpm drive

Fr3@k3r · May 17, 2006

dicecca112 said:
yeah but also, you could get 6 250s for this price. 1.5tb of storage

or you could go with 5 Sata 300GB drives for $500 (when fry's has its deals)

shellshock · May 17, 2006

thats pretty sweet. Im glad there finally out. It sets a new benchmark for other companys, and eventally leads to more innovative cutting edge technology

Now lets see how relibale they are. Defnally dont want another deskstar situtation. lol. I guess with segates 5 year warrenty though, your safe

eightballrj · May 17, 2006

Perp drives have been out in laptops for a bit. I have a 120 Momentus in my laptop and its great!.

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