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Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB HDD

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7:00 AM - 12/02/2008 by Chris Angelini, Ed Tittel, Thomas Soderstrom

http://www.seagate.com/
$130
By: Chris Angelini

It goes without saying that adding capacity is ridiculously cheap right now. Seagate’s 1 TB Barracuda sells online for less than $100, and its latest 1.5 TB drive goes for just $20 more than that. Incredible, isn’t it? For about $250 bucks, you can have a terabyte and a half, mirrored. Or, you could get a three-bay NAS box like the Thecus unit covered in Part 1 of Tom’s Holiday Buyer’s Guide and centralize all of your music, videos, and documents on a network.

As Patrick observed in the conclusion of his Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB review, Seagate is the only game in town with a 1.5 TB offering heading into the end of 2008. Though it might not be the fastest drive available, it boasts excellent throughput and serves as a great storage archive. To that end, it’d make a fantastic complement to an SSD or two in a high-end enthusiast machine.

No doubt you’ve heard about the problems reported by some users of the 1.5 TB drive reported here. For what it’s worth, Patrick didn’t experience any trouble with the drive in his review, nor have I had any problems in using the drive running benchmarks on my test bench. Nevertheless, Seagate has acknowledged an issue with its largest drives and has a firmware fix to rectify it. If you’re affected, snag the update—otherwise, enjoy the wonderful world of massive capacity.

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snotling 12/02/2008 2:10 PM
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snotling 12/02/2008 2:16 PM
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wicko 12/02/2008 2:28 PM
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Wow, I can't believe I'm reading complaints about these girls. They are skinny, but not anorexic, they look like they're in very good shape. My girlfriend is getting jealous :p

blackened144 12/02/2008 2:54 PM
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I personally like the brunette for the articles.. Something about her reminds me of Christmas.. The blonde, not so much..

LSoares1 12/02/2008 3:19 PM
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Wait, Did I miss something? What happened to part 2 and 3 of the 2008 Holiday Guide? All I see is part 1 and now this one....

LSoares1 12/02/2008 3:31 PM
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nevermind - I see the links in this article, but I didn't notice them on the Guide section.

antiacid 12/02/2008 4:11 PM
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Snotling :
The model is way too skinny. she makes the hardware look cheap.


Were you looking for "fat girls gone wild" when you opened this review? Seriously, this had to be the dumbest complaint of the year.

winterlord 12/02/2008 7:08 PM
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Quote : Of course, you’ll void your warranty in the process,


does anyone know if intel really can tell if your CPU has been just mildly overclocked? with no burn marks ect. i wonder about that cause id love to overclock it's fun to tinker with, but could not afford getting a bum chip, and it not be under warranty.

Anonymous 12/02/2008 7:18 PM
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Nice to see the update about the Seagate fix, finally.

winterlord 12/02/2008 7:19 PM
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That "the Gigabyte’s board with 2 graphics slots" is a sweet looking motherboard. and for anyone who just needs one graphics card slot i bet this be an alswome rig as well. a deffinit choice if i upgrade to the core 2 quad route. prolly go nehalem core i7 though

romans11 12/02/2008 8:02 PM
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snotling 12/02/2008 9:35 PM
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antiacid :
Were you looking for "fat girls gone wild" when you opened this review? Seriously, this had to be the dumbest complaint of the year.


the actual dumbest "comment chain" of the year were on spotlight where hundreds of comments criticized Tamara for using a mac, dressing to casual, dressing to formal, being to expressive, being not expressive enough, being sexy, not being sexy... well I just find it amusing that nobody cares how Ben Meyer and Rob Wright look or dressup.
Fat girls gone wild... how drastic. What about water-cooled hot chicks ?

shadow703793 12/02/2008 10:55 PM
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For part 6 of this guide, consider recommending this: http://www.livescribe.com/smartpen/index.html My friend has one and god I envy him for it. Helps to handle long lecturs (1hr +) easily.

tipoo 12/02/2008 10:57 PM
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Snotling :
I did notice there were two girls in there, but even if you add them up you still get too little meat to call that a woman.


lmao

KyleSTL 12/02/2008 11:49 PM
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I'm surprized I'm the first to catch it, but the motherboard in the picture is not the UD3R, it is the UD3P. The UD3P has 2 PCIe 16x slots, whereas the UD3R only has one. It you click to see the full sized picture you can read (barely) the correct model number.

randomizer 12/03/2008 12:31 PM
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It must suck to handle all that hardware but not be able to keep it.

randomizer 12/03/2008 12:33 PM
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Snotling :
well I just find it amusing that nobody cares how Ben Meyer and Rob Wright look or dressup.


Ben and Rob posing in Christmas gear, that would be funny.

caamsa 12/03/2008 12:53 PM
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I am sure that none of you boys have the hardware that these ladies would be interested in anyway.

Keep your flash drives in your pockets. ;-P

motleydogg 12/03/2008 1:15 AM
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Sorry but my floppy drive has been replaced with a hard drive,... I wonder if I can place my RAM in the slot, I wouldn't try turning it on until after everything is in. I would like to monitor the cable being managed. It might get hot, but if we have a fan, I shouldn't have to twist those knobs to control things much,...

MitchMeister- 12/03/2008 1:42 AM
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So I keep seeing everyone recommending the E8600.. but why when an E8400 is $100 less and the only difference is that it's not factory overclocked? Or is something on the E8600 that much better?


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