Seagate ups ante to 1.5TB with new Barracuda hard drive

1.5TB is the new 1TB.

(Credit: Seagate)

Really, one terabyte isn't enough? If so, you'll be pleased to know that your insatiable need for more digital storage has left Seagate no choice but to announce the world's first 1.5TB hard drive. The half-terabyte jump over previous highest capacity 1TB drives, Seagate is happy to point out, represents the largest jump in capacity in hard-drive history. The 3.5-inch Barracuda 7200.11 uses perpendicular magnetic recording, which squeezes more 1s and 0s per square inch than conventional drives, to pack 1.5TB of storage space over four platters. Seagate isn't sharing pricing details yet. The drive will begin shipping in August.

Also today, Seagate announced a pair of 500GB laptop drives, the Momentus 5400.6 and the Momentus 7200.4. These 5,400rpm and 7,200rpm 2.5-inch drives won't ship until Q4 of this year.

[Press release]

[SAMSONRODRIGUEZ]

Will this fit in my nov 2007 Macbook with the 2.2ghz Intel? im nearly clueless to this, but i can google the specs and size of its original hdd, just needed a second opinion. thanks

[chrgeorgeson]

This is good news for people who are building HTPC and want to back up all of there DVD's (uncompressed) and still have room for PVR functionality.
It's not stupid to come out with drives like these like Matthew Elliot was insinuating. I only have 2 drive bays open in my slim HTPC case and I plan to get as much capacity as possible seeing how I have over 200 DVD's I would like to back up. Unfortunately this still isn't enough for me. But the good news is that 1TB drives should start falling soon.

[Matt E]

Oh, I don't mean to say a 1.5TB drive is stupid. It's just that, personally, I have nowhere near a terabyte of digital media. Maybe a quarter of that, between photos from my 6MP camera and my roughly 6000-song iTunes library. My movies I get on demand. But to those consumers who like to "back up" their DVD collection, this 1.5TB Barraduda drive is no doubt good news. And, yes, with prices soon to drop on 1TB drives, you could also double up on a pair of those for an even 2TB of space.

And to Samson Rodriquez's question, the 2.5-inch Momentus drives should fit in your MacBook. Looks like you'll have to wait until October or later for those.

[guest86]

I don't trust with Seagate anymore. Go Western Digital all way. This make me feel afraid to lost my files easily.

[JWilliams06]

No, this will NOT fit in your little Macbook. It's not a notebook drive.... notebook drives = 2.5"; desktop drives = 3.5"

Terabytes are anywhere close on notebook hard drives. I think the highest so far is maybe 500gb.... but I'm not sure if it has even been released yet.

[iff2mastamatt]

Lol. I just bought a 1TB HD. Ohhh well. Soon there will be HD's that can hold 1 yotabyte! (which is a ton of teribytes!)

[JImmyJungJung]

I had a Seagate once. It locked up and I lost my entire system. took days to restore it all.
www.FireMe.To/udi

[Filthpig5000]

Yea, I am waiting for a drive that will hold 1 yodabyte (yea I know it's yottabyte, but I am trying to get people to say yodabyte now while I still have the chance.

I have 4TB of tv shows, movies, mp3, so I think I will buy this drive to consolidate.

[Snap80]

XCPUs posted a hands-on review of this guy:

http://www.xcpus.com/GetDoc.aspx?doc=73&page=1

Impressive performance! Hope long-term reliability is good (750,000 hours MTBF, which is pretty darn good).

[darenshawn]

Finally the hard drive come into Tera bytes. I cannot believe myself of having Tera bytes of digital data.. I think i barely remember where I store my files in by that time.

Daren
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[iceq2]

Dear Matt. I wish this messages recieves you in good health ^_^

I am planning to purchase a new 1 TB eSata supporting external HD. I have checked the specs of many of them, where my investigations have ended up with two of them :

Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme (1TB)



And

My Book Home Edition WDH1CS10000



I read the review (http://reviews.cnet.com/hard-drives/seagate-freeagent-xtreme-1tb/4505-3186_7-33300463.html?tag=api&subj=re) of the Seagate FreeAgent Xtreme by Dong Ngo , which you have edited. One of the bad things listed in the review is : "eSATA connection needs reset after idling".

And later explained in the full review :

We did notice, however, that the FreeAgent Xtreme's eSATA connections would appear disconnected after an hour or so of idling, and we had to repower the drive for eSATA to be recognized by the system again. While this doesn't affect the data stored on the drive, it's a nuisance--especially since eSATA says this is the connection that shows the best throughput performance on the drive.

Now I didnt really understand what that means.. What do u mean by "repower the drive for the esata to be recognized by the system again"? I think the driver doesnt have a power button at atll .. so do you actually unplug it everytime it idles ? Does this mean I have to unplug the drive and replug it again every morning ?

And Did you by any chance make a review to the My Book Home Edition WDH1CS10000 ? I searched CNET and there is nothing on it. I am asking because somebody reported that his PC kept freezing or crashing when he connected the drive through its esata port, and that the system kep trying to boot from the drive when it was connected to the pc through the same esata port, and when he tried to disable this function from the bios configuration, it didnt help.

I will be raelly grateful if you helo solving this confusion I am in :)

Thanx for taking the time to read this message.

[bishopp14]

I just bought 2 Seagate 1.5 TB HD's and to my disappointment the drives are impossible to format. They will format up to around 700 gigs then it freezes up. Neither one is usable as a 1.5 TB HD which is what I bought them for in the first place. I have searched the web for a solution but the few fixes that I have found (which consist of updating firmware and the BIOS) have all failed to fix the problem. I even purchased special partitioning software and my computer is plenty powerful enough to handle the extra storage. Hopefully sometime soon someone will come up with a way for computers to use HD's larger than 1TB! That will be great!! Until then I'm stuck with my 2 rather expensive paperweights. Way to put the horse before the cart there Seagate!