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Old 07-16-09   #1 (permalink)
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Default [techwarelabs]Modifying the Seagate 1.5TB Hard Drive: Unleash the Hidden Performance
Modifying the Seagate 1.5TB Hard Drive: Unleash the Hidden Performance Within

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As many of you know, recently Seagate released one of the largest consumer drives on the market: the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS . The drive’s capacity is 1.5 TB (1500 GB) or approximately 1.397 TB. The drive specifications are decent and Seagate itself announced that this drive will be able to handle 120 MB/sec sustained transfer rate. All of us know that these rates will not be across the whole drive and were most likely obtained under the best possible conditions. That being said, we still can not overlook the fact that a 1.5 TB drive’s speeds place it directly in the Velociraptor territory. After discovering this astonishing speeds people normally bust out their Western Digital Velociraptor drives and start benchmarking them for comparison. So, what do they get? Velociraptor obviously wins in all categories – max speed, min speed, average speed, access time, you name it and it wins it. At this point they label the Seagate drive as second best and close the case. Of course thats the point, the Seagate drive was not meant to compete with the Velociraptor which is a performance drive and is instead targeted towards good performance and high storage capacity. So end of story right? . . . What if I told you there was a way to modify the 1.5TB Seagate to unleash the hidden beast within. . .

I decided to take the matters a step further. The WD Velociraptor is the largest “Raptor” class drive available on the market with the capacity of 300 GB. Despite the fact that it is the largest out of the lot, you still have a 300 GB drive compete against a drive that is basically five times its size. Normally, the giant will not stand a fighting chance, (look up David and Goliath if you don’t believe me) so I decided to even the fight out a little. What kind of speeds would you get if you were to take the large drive and downsize to the size of the Velociraptor? I decided to find out.
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Man I would try this if I had a Seagate !

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Horrible article. The biggest advantage to velociraptors are the low access times, which makes them the better choice for anything other than transferring huge files around. Apparently that means nothing to them.
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how bout limiting the 15.7k cheetah to only 15gb and raid 0 4 of em?
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Cool

I didn't know you could do that.
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Are those today's new terms for "slightly faster than"?
Many people believe Looks > Performance.

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This is all fine and dandy, but...

As far as I'm concerned you buy 1TB+ drives for storage drives. Not as high-performance primary drives. This is pointless and a waste, in this case, IMHO.
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This is all fine and dandy, but...

As far as I'm concerned you buy 1TB+ drives for storage drives. Not as high-performance primary drives. This is pointless and a waste, in this case, IMHO.
just about, but this is mod is brought up to come close the the velociraptor.
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how bout limiting the 15.7k cheetah to only 15gb and raid 0 4 of em?
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This is all fine and dandy, but...

As far as I'm concerned you buy 1TB+ drives for storage drives. Not as high-performance primary drives. This is pointless and a waste, in this case, IMHO.
It was an experiment. The Seagate is pretty much half the price, and given the same amount of storage, it's a damn good bargain alternative if that's what you're looking for.
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Interesting.

Drop the parenthesis and use open/close bracket in your title.
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This is all fine and dandy, but...

As far as I'm concerned you buy 1TB+ drives for storage drives. Not as high-performance primary drives. This is pointless and a waste, in this case, IMHO.
A waste? It's half the price of a velociraptor

This is very good cheap performance we're talking about here
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