Seagate 1.5TB Drive Review

[Dean]

Discussion thread for this article: Seagate 1.5TB Drive Review. Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

-Dean

[MeltDown]

I think I want one of those drives - twice the capacity of my 750GB drives with substantially better speed. The velociraptor is now even more irrelevant for 99.99% of people, even enthusiasts.

[korben43]

Yeah, I might have to use three or four of them in the Ultimate build! Nice work, Dean!

[YMAA]

Great work!

[Dean]

I think I want one of those drives - twice the capacity of my 750GB drives with substantially better speed. The velociraptor is now even more irrelevant for 99.99% of people, even enthusiasts.

Yeah. I was shocked when I saw the results of the benchmarks.

[Dean]

Yeah, I might have to use three or four of them in the Ultimate build! Nice work, Dean!

Great work!

Thanks, guys. Yeah, these beasts in the Ultimate build would be a force to be reckoned with.

[baligavinod]

wow! that 1.5TB drive is awesome

*wants *

Great work as usual Dean

[Dean]

Thanks, Vinod. Anyway, yeah, the drive really blew my expectations away. Hence me messing w/ my SATA controllers and swapping cables and whatnot just to make sure I wasn't crazy.

[1Tanker]

Great review Dean. Monster drive... I haven't been able to find out(officially) what size platters they're using. Judging by the performance results, i assume it's 4x375GB, as (5)300GB platters wouldn't hit ~ 120MB/s transfer rate...AFAIK.

[brentpresley]

Nice work Dean.

I'll be picking up 3-4 of these drives for the new server in 1-2 months.

[Clue69Less]

Nice work Dean. Have you read anything about the changes made to get the speed up? I haven't but there has to be something out there. (OK, I just looked on Seagate's pages for this drive : Seagate Technology - Barracuda® 7200.11 Hard Drives and http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...&reqPage=Model) You might want to mine some of that into the review, not only performance related but also power usage.

[TSIMonster]

wow! Those just mudered my Samsung F1 drives.... just wow.

[Tark]

*wants* my drive is old and crappy now.. I need a new one.

[1Tanker]

Nice work Dean. Have you read anything about the changes made to get the speed up? I haven't but there has to be something out there. (OK, I just looked on Seagate's pages for this drive : Seagate Technology - Barracuda® 7200.11 Hard Drives and Seagate Technology - Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 1.5-TB Hard Drive) You might want to mine some of that into the review, not only performance related but also power usage.

I'm assuming that the increase in arial density from going to 375GB platters... from the 333GB platters of the 1TB would account for most of the increase.

[Dean]

Great review Dean. Monster drive... I haven't been able to find out(officially) what size platters they're using. Judging by the performance results, i assume it's 4x375GB, as (5)300GB platters wouldn't hit ~ 120MB/s transfer rate...AFAIK.

Yeah, I think they are 4x375GB platters. A lot of places have said that (but didn't mention their sources so I'm not sure how legit it is). But, Seagate says "up to four platters" here:

Seagate Technology - Barracuda® 7200.11 Hard Drives

So, that would imply that 4x375 is true.

Nice work Dean.

I'll be picking up 3-4 of these drives for the new server in 1-2 months.

Awesome. It'll be interesting to see how reliable these drives are. The MTBF is higher than the Samsung F1 (750,000 hours VS 600,000), so I have high hopes.

Nice work Dean. Have you read anything about the changes made to get the speed up? I haven't but there has to be something out there. (OK, I just looked on Seagate's pages for this drive : Seagate Technology - Barracuda® 7200.11 Hard Drives and Seagate Technology - Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 1.5-TB Hard Drive) You might want to mine some of that into the review, not only performance related but also power usage.

Yeah... maybe I should update the review with some of that extra info. But, I'm over-worked.

wow! Those just mudered my Samsung F1 drives.... just wow.

Yep. They did. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news (or good news depending on how you look at it).

*wants* my drive is old and crappy now.. I need a new one.

Yeah. I've been using a 120GB Seagate drive (it's pretty dang old) in my rig, and I didn't realize how crappy it is these days. I ran some tests on it for fun and these newer drives are 100% faster in some tests.

[huddy]

Wow... simply wow. I'm almost ashamed to have 750GB F1's now. Beautiful review Dean.

[brentpresley]

750GB F1s are slower than the 1TB F1s b/c of their decreased plater density.

[MagicLess]

Nice work Dean, enjoyable and informative read.

[Dean]

Wow... simply wow. I'm almost ashamed to have 750GB F1's now. Beautiful review Dean.

Thanks. Well, the 1.5TB drives are pretty dang affordable, so run out and get one!

750GB F1s are slower than the 1TB F1s b/c of their decreased plater density.

Yeah. My understanding is that the 640GB and 1TB F1s are the fastest (due to platter density).

Nice work Dean, enjoyable and informative read.

Thanks, ML.

[Afrodisiac]

Thanks. Well, the 1.5TB drives are pretty dang affordable, so run out and get one!

Yeah. My understanding is that the 640GB and 1TB F1s are the fastest (due to platter density).

Thanks, ML.

I closed it at first (review bore me to death), but after reading some comments I read your stuff and I was surprised; you made a hard drive look interesting! GJ Dean, and those are some pretty damn good numbers. Any idea why the results in HDTach and the other HD software are different?