7200.12

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Seagate announced today that it's newest lineup of hard disk drives, the 7200.12 family, are shipping with the world's highest areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch. In a 3.5" format, that works out to 500GB per platter. That allows the 7200.12 products to squeeze 1TB of capacity onto just two discs with a sustained data rate of up to 160MB/s. The previous generation of drives used three platters in a 1TB capacity model. As with the previous 7200.11 generation drives, the latest are SATA 3.0 Gbps, spin at 7,200RPM and offer 16- and 32MB of cache. The lineup currently comes in 1TB, 750GB and 500GB models.
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Didn't they have problems with the 1.5TB drives?

I'd take it easy for a while.
 
Damn I want one. My .11 is fucking fast but I want FASTER! I guess my next 1TB will be a .12.
 
i hope the 7200.12 would remind or even cheaper than the curret 7200.11! lol
they better have smaller size like 320GB... personally i dont really need huge harddrive... i rather have more to do RAID lol
 
The OEM versions will be 3 year warranty drives, correct?

The super overpriced retail boxed drives may be 5 year, but I don't feel like paying $0.60 per gb at a ripoff store like best buy.
 
I'd take faster and more reliable right now over capacity..... something SSD is shooting for.

Building a computer for a relative? A ultra reliable 80GB drive is more important than a problematic 1.5TB drive.
 
theystolemyname said:
The OEM versions will be 3 year warranty drives, correct?
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Not unless they've changed something in the past few months. Seagate's OEM drives have always carried the same warranty as their retail units - 5 years.
 
Blue Falcon said:
Not unless they've changed something in the past few months. Seagate's OEM drives have always carried the same warranty as their retail units - 5 years.
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They've changed their policy very recently; all disks bought after January 9th, 2009 (IIRC) will have 3 year warranties.
 
Syntax Error said:
They've changed their policy very recently; all disks bought after January 9th, 2009 (IIRC) will have 3 year warranties.
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Awww nuts. That sucks ass. :(

Oh well 3 years is still damned good.

I personally won't touch the 7200.12 until after at least a few months of it's release, mainly because of all of the problems with the 7200.11 line. I swear I have never seen such a horrendous amount of failures except for maybe the IBM DeathStar 75GXP drives back in the day. And this is coming from a long-time Seagate loyalist.
 
Excellent, hopefully we will see these hit online retailers soon, about finished with my media server. :D
 
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