Seagate Joins 2-Tbyte Drive Club

Dashken · 3rd Feb 2009, 03:09 PM

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Seagate said Monday that the company will ship a 2-Tbyte drive this quarter, but for the enterprise.

Seagate announced both the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES on Monday. Both drives will ship with either a SATA or a Serial-Attached SCSI interface; the Constellation will be Seagate's first to ship with a SAS 2.0 interface, the company said.

The Constellation's capacity is an attention-getter, though: 2 terabytes, the same capacity that Western Digital said it had begun shipping last week for the enthusiast PC market.

The tradeoff? Performance, apparently. An ExtremeTech review of the WD 2-Tbyte GreenPower drive found that WD apparently sacrificed some performance for a quieter, lower-power drive. Seagate, on the other hand, says that the Constellation ES was the only 7,200-RPM 2-Tbyte drive on the market; WD doesn't publicly release the speed of its GreenPower drives.

Seagate didn't announce the prices of its Constellation drives.

Source: Seagate Joins 2-Tbyte Drive Club - News and Analysis by PC Magazine

Adrian Wong · 4th Feb 2009, 07:11 PM

Ahhh... More space for porn collectors.

Max_87 · 5th Feb 2009, 12:07 AM

Better make sure there is no firmware problem on this drive like the 1.5TB before storing all your precious prawn collection in it

Adrian Wong · 5th Feb 2009, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Max_87

Better make sure there is no firmware problem on this drive like the 1.5TB before storing all your precious prawn collection in it

Hehehehe...

mikegas · 5th Feb 2009, 09:50 AM

Well, there is always WD one which already in store. Again it maybe a GP drive but still is a match to the 7200rpm drive

Anyway, I am still happy with my 300GB space on velociraptor.

Collection is all in the external drives..

Chai · 5th Feb 2009, 02:27 PM

I don't think it's a match. It's even slower than the 1TB GP. It's useful as a backup storage. That's about it.

I love my Velocifaptor! Excellent drive! But I still wish for the barebone version though...

Adrian Wong · 5th Feb 2009, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by mikegas

Well, there is always WD one which already in store. Again it maybe a GP drive but still is a match to the 7200rpm drive

Anyway, I am still happy with my 300GB space on velociraptor.

Collection is all in the external drives..

When can I test one???

Trinity · 5th Feb 2009, 04:48 PM

Velocifaptor!.....

mikegas · 5th Feb 2009, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

When can I test one???

Media sample won't come till mid March... Anyway, I heard you have one WD TV? Mana review, too much watching Porn with it, is it?

lee_what2004 · 5th Feb 2009, 07:01 PM

come come new model, let the old model cheaper

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