Seagate 1.5TB Can Beat a Raptor?

[slick2500]

I didn't notice this posted here anywhere but found it very interesting. And Newegg has these on sale for $109.99 with free shipping and a promo code.

 

http://www.techwarelabs.com/seagate_1-5tb-mod/

[cirro]

that amazing, too bad you still have to reduce the size of the drive. makes me wonder if a similar model that is a 320gb version would produce those speeds naturally

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-edit- i may pick up a couple of them and see how it preforms for mein a month. if not, i can ALWAYS use that space!

Edited December 15, 2009 by cirro

[Zertz]

makes me wonder if a similar model that is a 320gb version would produce those speeds naturally

No, what this does is disable the inner tracks of the drive which are inherently slower

[supergeek101]

Then why don't they try short stroking the drive and using the rest of the storage for, say archives and unfrequently accessed stuff?

[CheeseMan42]

Maybe they should have put as much effort into firmware development and testing as they did into engineering the mechanical parts.

[Andrewr05]

I've known you could do this for awhile but I've never tried it..

[cirro]

No, what this does is disable the inner tracks of the drive which are inherently slower

 

so to do that to a smaller drive, it would have to have a blank area for inner tracks so the outer tracks can be used for data?

you'd think that would be a easily manufactured solution for higher data rates..

 

its not rocket science to upgrade a HD as it.. just dont get any dust in it :}

[IVIYTH0S]

My dad's 500GB 7200.12 already beats my velociraptor lol

[Fatedmeeting]

That's pretty cool stuff.

[joel.monteiro]

i have 500gb and 1tb seagate hdd 7200rpm.12 will this work on ne of those B:) then looking at IVIYTH0S comment if thats true then idont think u need this

Edited December 16, 2009 by joel.monteiro

[IVIYTH0S]

access time is all the veloci has really

[Zertz]

Maybe they should have put as much effort into firmware development and testing as they did into engineering the mechanical parts.

It just makes sense! It's not a question of not putting the effort in.

 

It's a disc so the outter tracks are going to be larger, nothing you can do about it

Longer track = the head doesn't have to move = faster

Short track = the head has to change tracks all the time = slower