Perpendicular Hard Drives

Yeorwned · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 6:05 am

Storing data vertically on the disk platter has made excellent changes in data retrieval and capacity numbers, supposedly also curing the super-paramagnetic effect. I don't think anything short of solid state storage will cure super-paramagneticism but she's going to give it a run for her money from what it looks like.

Also, a single Seagate 7200.10 can read burst at ~240MB/s making RAID not so much of a big upgrade for everyone. Power to Noise to Performance, she scores quite well.

http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q2/ba ... dex.x?pg=1

Kraka_Da_LAN · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 7:10 am

I'd hit it. The scores look good and 750gb single drive would be nice.

Yeorwned · **Posted:** Wed May 31, 2006 10:03 am

I think the real question is would you have your robe and your wizard hat on when you hit it~

Kraka_Da_LAN · **Posted:** Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:45 am

Yeorwned · **Posted:** Tue Dec 26, 2006 6:31 pm

During my recent HTPC build, I replaced my desktop drives with new seagate drives...the results are awesome. 15% Increase~

SPD010273 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:48 pm

oh shit just two of em in RAID 0?!?!

my pair of WD1600's pull ~305-310 MB/s

Yeorwned · **Posted:** Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:35 am

Yeah. ICH7 ownz~ my old WD2500KS (250GB/16MB @ 7200) scored about 310-315 optimized on ICH7. They're on a NV RAID board now so we'll see what difference the controller makes soon enough.

Funny thing about that test is I ran it with antivirus, which tends to rape HDTach results~ turned it off and it went up more. Image updated...

SPD010273 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 27, 2006 2:21 am

i dont even want to imagine 4 of those bad boys on a real controller....

Yeorwned · **Posted:** Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:02 pm

Give me $1000 and we can find out~ :lol:

SPD010273 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:35 am

yeah hefty price at ~$400 per drive

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