Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB SATA Hard Drive
Introduction and the Drive
Published: 7th August 2006 | Source: Seagate | Price: |
With more and more people wanting to use their PC for recording live television, storing lossless audio and installing modern large-size game files, the hard drive industry has had to keep up. Seagate are a well-known force in the industry and well respected among technology enthusiasts.
Today I have Seagates "monster" 750GB hard drive. Using perpendicular recording to achieve this huge storage space in a 3.5" form factor, are Seagate onto a winner with this 3/4 terabyte drive?
The Drive
Let's take a look at the drive itself. As you are probably aware, hard drives are not much to look at and Seagates drive is about the same. It's pretty square and looks solid.
Seagate sent this in awesome wrapping, but expect your drive to come like this:
The bottom shows us the PCB. Nothing unusual here then.
And of course the all-important label stating the size. How much can I fit on this?
When we look at the connecters you notice that there is no molex connecter, nor is there space to put one or a blanked out space. It looks like Seagate expect people who can afford this drive to afford to have a PSU with SATA conencters, which is fair enough.
There is also room for jumpers, which Seagate supplied in small plastic bag. These are for jumpering the drive to SATA 150/ATA 100, allowing for 8mb cache instead of 16. I left this on default.
Lets just see how it comes out once put into our test bed:
Lets just see how it comes out once put into our test bed:
Most Recent Comments
yeah all tho i cannot really see any major bennifits of sata II compared to sata I
NCQ is one of the best achievements sata 2 has ;)
someone wana explain what NCQ is?
someone wana explain what NCQ is?
yeah i know im confused about it as well :o
okk well i just googled NCQ hard drive technology and it seems to be when
NCQ technology allows drives to prioritize a PC's data requests.
look at this you don't need to turn the page ;)
cheers bal! repped u cos that was interesting
yeah i think it deserves some reps as well it was very interesting :) well deserved
thnks guys
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All mobos support it even if it is sata 2 and the mobo is only sata 1 but int that case it lacks the features of sata 2