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betelgeus

2:01 PM on 21 September, 2009

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if you get a sustained transfer of anything like 140 on a sata 2 interface,ill get one yesterday.

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Xiphias

4:54 PM on 21 September, 2009

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It's just as well really, considering the implementation problems SATA3 is currently having:

http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/17-09-2009/#10424

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GoldenGuy

5:18 PM on 21 September, 2009

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Any news on an external version?

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Geoff Richards

5:51 PM on 21 September, 2009

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@GoldenGuy - not yet, but I'm sure they will follow. Afterall, capacity is neutral of interface. This story proves they have the tech to do 4 x 500GB platters so there's no reason why they won't extend the existing FreeAgent Xtreme family to 2TB; they already do 1.5TB for about £150.

I suppose there's a chance it might come as 6Gbps eSATA - I read a quote from back in March 2009 where Seagate claim it's coming - but this announcement is for internal SATA 6Gbps. They could always do a 3Gb/sec eSATA / USB 2.0 version in 2TB very easily.

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owlism

7:01 PM on 21 September, 2009

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I'd like to see how this compares with the new WD Black Caviar 2TB drive... I'll be looking for a new hard drive to install Windows 7 to when it comes around, and quite fancy a fast disk.

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OliverLevett

8:12 PM on 21 September, 2009

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I'm just wondering why this is any better than anything we've got now? I recently snapped up 2 750GB HDDs with SATA2, and have them in a RAID0 setup. This cost me £80, and adding another 2 drives would get it to 3TB and probably faster read/write times anyway. That will still come in at less than a single 2TB drive!

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thewelshbrummie

11:22 PM on 21 September, 2009

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@Oliver Levett

It will be better than one of your 750GB HDDs, but not because of the new SATA interface - it'll be faster thanks to the 500GB platters. I'm assuming that you're 750GB drives have at least 2, possibly 3 platters, so the data density will be lower, hence the read/write head will have to cover more ground to read the same amount of data.

Your RAID 0 setup changes things though... and will probably make it slightly faster than a single drive. Saying that, I always go for data security rather than performance... each to their own I guess.

Also, 4 platters does add to power consumption - 3 seems to be the sweet spot for performance/space if Samsungs past offerings are to go by

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Vacationer

10:30 PM on 25 September, 2009

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I'll not buy any 2TB HDD till prices didn't reach £100. It's gonna be soon :)

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