Review of Seagate barracuda 7200.11-1.5TB eco-friendly hard drive

Seagate, well known manufacturers of computer hardware components, released world’s first 1.5TB hard drive. This 1.5TB hard drive comes under the Seagate barracuda family. Cost of this drive is economical and leading edge technologies like Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR), aerial density, etc. makes this drive more special. Another specialty of this drive is the eco-friendly nature. It consumes nearly 43% lesser power when it is in idle condition when compared with its previous products. It also meets the Restriction of Hazardous

Seagate barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB

Seagate barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB

Substance (RoHS) requirements. Comparing with other rival hard drives, it proved to perform better in many ways.

Specification of Seagate barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB:

The 1.5TB Seagate barracuda drives comes with a SATA 3Gb/s NCQ interface with a cache memory of 32MB. It has a sustained data rate of 120 MB/s. The speed of the spindle is 7200rpm. It uses a soft sonic motor, which is efficient in producing low noise levels.

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Review of Seagate barracuda 7200.12 750GB hard drive

Storage device manufacturing industries are spending a huge sum of money in research to find out new and advanced storage drives with high performance and low cost. In recent years, number of hard drives has been launched with different technologies incorporated in it.

In some hard drives, spindle speed has been varied, in some drives number of platters has been varied and in some drives technologies has been varied. All these variations are made in order to find out a drive that delivers its maximum potential to PC users, making them feel comfortable in all aspects.

Seagate barracuda 7200.12 750GB

Seagate barracuda 7200.12 750GB

Seagate barracuda family of drives has a unique design and eco friendly characteristics. Eco friendly character of barracuda family is one the most prominent features and success of Seagate. It helps to save power consumed by the drive when it is in idle condition and even during operation. Next, advantage about the barracuda family is the capacity of the drive. It offers drives with various capacities suiting the application of the user. Here in this article, you will know in detail about the working and advantages of Seagate barracuda 7200.12 750GB hard drive.

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Review of Western Digital Caviar GP WD 10 EACS

With the help of science and technology, it is possible to create any kind of product now a day. Since, world being computerized in all aspects, the capacity of computer is increased in order to meet the needs of users. Capacity directly refers to the storage space of the hard drive. There are users who are in need of very high capacity computers like 1TB and more.

Western Digital Caviar GP WD 10 EACS

Western Digital Caviar GP WD 10 EACS

It is understood that when the capacity is increased, then automatically the power used to run the drive should be increased. Already there is a great demand for power all over the world and products are now designed in such a way that it consumes very less power. Continue reading Review of Western Digital Caviar GP WD 10 EACS

Review of Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS

Hard drives from western digital speak for itself in every aspect. Every product released by western digital had some advantageous features that clearly distinguish it from its previous products. The Western Digital’s VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS is such unique drive that marked the launch of first 10,000-rpm drive. All standard and performance drive usually has drive speed of 7,200-rpm. But, this drive outsmarted all other drives in performance, which were present at that time. Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS became the number one drive for its performance after its launch clearly leading all other drives in all aspects.

WD VelociRaptor 300GB

WD VelociRaptor 300GB

The VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS from western digital exhibited only strengths in all fields when it was put for performance test. This drive set new records in hard drive performance and it exceeded previous results of other competitors. One of the most impressive results obtained during performance test is the writing time of the VelociRaptor. It took just 89seconds to write files and folders of 3.06GB size. The previous best performance in writing was given by Western Digital’s Caviar SE 16 with 750GB capacity, taking 121seconds to copy the same sized files and folders. It was found that the VelociRaptor has about 26% improvement from his counterpart.

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