Digital Home Thoughts: Mouthwatering Benchmarks of Seagate 7200.9 500GB

"Last week, Seagate officially announced their 7200.9 desktop hard disk drive line, which brought 3.0Gbps transfer rates, a barrage of SATA features, and a new capacity to bring Seagate to share the top of the mountain with Hitachi. We promised benchmarks and we like to keep our promises. As soon as we ended our call with Seagate, we went ahead and placed the order for the 500GB version of the 7200.9 with 16MB of cache. Being the newest and highest capacity in Seagate's line of hard drives, we chose to look at it exclusively. For now, we will compare the 500GB drive's performance to some of its older predecessors, like the 7200.7 120GB model, and the 7200.8 400GB model that we looked at a few months back, both with 8MB cache and the first generation 1.5Gbps transfer rates... With 3.0Gb/sec peak transfer rates and a 16MB cache, we expected the 500GB 7200.9 to blow away all of the other drives that we have reviewed."



Damnit, damnit, damnit!!! Now I am pissed off. As I mentioned before, I recently from from New York to Seattle. Right before moving, I had to give up my computer at school, return my computer at home (back to school) and backup my server and my laptop. Over the years I have accumulated a ton of data (almost 350GB) and I need a good solution to back it up. So I started looking for external hard drives. After much researching for a good balance between reliability and cost effectiveness, I chose to buy a 400GB Seagate drive and a Vantec external enclosure. Damn, I wish this drive had been available a couple of weeks ago.