seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA free download

File name Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA.PDF

PlanetX64 Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA3G HDD Contributed by Jason Hambly Thursday, 17 November 2005 Last Updated Monday, 08 May 2006 Seagate is once again setting a new standard with their newest line of 3.5? hard disk drives. The Barracuda 7200.9 is the newest offering from Seagate in the high capacity desktop drive market. We have previously had the opportunity to test out Seagate?s flagship drive from the 7200.8 series and now we are about to see what the new generation brings to the table. Manufacturer: Seagate Model: Barracuda 7200.9 500GB Price: $432US (?369) Supplied by: Seagate Specifications: - Complete family of capacities up to 500 Gbytes - 7200-RPM spin speed - Cache memory available in 2-, 8-, and 16- Mbyte options (depending on capacity) - SATA 3Gb/s interface with NCQ and many more SATA features - Also available in ATA/100 interface options - Best-in-class drive acoustics - Average Seek (msec) = 8.5 - Shock, Operating (Gs) = 63 - Shock, Nonoperating (Gs) = 300 - Acoustics, Idle (bels) = 2.8 Features and Benefits: - Highest available capacity: Up to one half terabyte (500Gbytes), enabling OEMs and system builders to qualify one family of drives from a trusted supplier for a wide range of personal storage, entry-level servers and low cost nearline storage solutions http://www.planetx64.com Powered by Joomla! Generated: 12 October, 2008, 03:07 PlanetX64 - SATA 3Gb/s interface offers blazing fast 300Mbytes/sec interface speed combined with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for high performance and fast data transfer rates - Additional SATA features such as hot plug, staggered spin-up, drive LED capable, backward compatible with SATA 1.5Gb/s hosts, and compatible with new SATA ClickConnect connectors - A proven design for shorter qualification times and top reliability - Rugged drives with industry-leading operating and nonoperating shock specifications - Unprecedented 5-year warranty Specifications and Features: 4.5/5 {mospagebreak title=The Drive} The Drive: On the outside there isn?t much to look at on a hard drive. You see a metal box with a label on the top, a circuit board on the bottom, and some plugs on the end. Seagate for a couple of generations now has dropped the Molex connector and only uses the SATA power connector. Since all new power supplies come with at least two of these connectors and sometimes four, I shed no tears with the disappearance of the Molex connector. Fortunately for us end users the insides of all hard drives are not as similar as the outsides. Seagate boasts the industries highest areal density with up to 160GB per platter. With such a high platter capacity there are fewer platters needed as well as fewer read/write heads, this leaves less room for errors to occur. This move to larger platters also improves performance with less se