Seagate 7200.8 any time soon?

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Has anyone seen a solid release date for the new Seagate 7200.8 SATA hard disks? I know of the press releases and such, but have yet to see one of these disks on the market. I'm thinking of putting one or two in my system due to the 5 year warranty, 16MB cache, and low noise levels, to replace my WD PATA drives. I was hoping they'd be around in time for Christmas, but so far, no luck. Anyone?
 
They're out, at least the 300 and 400 GB models. There is a 500 GB model due out next month.
 
ermm...the seagates have only 8mb of cache.. You're thinking of Maxtor's DiamondMax 10 drives.

cheers,

dave
 
tdg said:
They're out, at least the 300 and 400 GB models. There is a 500 GB model due out next month.
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500GB? Wow. Do you have any specifics on this? I was probably going to buy the 400GB, but this has my interest now :D
 
speaking of: i've got the 250gb 7200.8 for 205.00
the 300gb for 235.00
and the 400gb for $405.00

cheers,

dave
 
dave_graham said:
ermm...the seagates have only 8mb of cache.. You're thinking of Maxtor's DiamondMax 10 drives.

cheers,

dave
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Actually, no. The 7200.8's are supposed to come in both 8MB and 16MB cache variants, according to multiple sources I've read, including The Register, Tom's Hardware, and others.
 
according to Seagate's reseller information, they only are available in 8mb...notice, i said NOTHING about future iterations of the drives.

8mb is only available now.

cheers,

dave
 
I havent seen any SATA 7200.8 400GB drives anywhere. I'm hoping they get regular 500GB+ drives by May!
 
dave_graham said:
speaking of: i've got the 250gb 7200.8 for 205.00
the 300gb for 235.00
and the 400gb for $405.00

cheers,

dave
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Did you get the one with 8MB cache or 16MB? Also is it SATA?
 
How long until the price difference between IDE/SATA is only ~$!0 like it is for older HDD? When will the 400GB SATA be under $300, and closer to $270? Or is it better not to wait and just get the IDE version?
 
well, with SATAII controller out of final silicon and the manufacturers working on integrating SATA II onto the hd controller boards, you're going to find that IDE just won't make sense any more. Frankly, i've moved from IDE to SATA on all my PCs and any custom builds are done the exact same way. Performance-wise, there isn't going to be a lot of difference. However, real esate and cooling wise, i just like it.

seagate will be the first, imho, with native SATA II drives. :) their work with NCQ is outstanding. I've got a 160gb 7200.7 w/ NCQ on its way from Seagate at this moment...can't wait to see how it performs.

in any case, hard drive prices drop slowly. but, you've got to wait for movement on the enterprise level before you'll see much on the consumer side. it's a funny thing.

i predict a 5% drop between now and the end of Q1 2005. Pricing parity with IDE solutions already exists (somewhat). On my end, my pricing is usually within 5-10 dollars, which is quite good.

cheers,

dave
 
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