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Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 vs Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400 GB


Author:  Tyler Curry
Date:  2005.04.25
Topic:  Storage
Provider:  Seagate
Manufacturer:  Hitachi







Seagate is also a company of many products but are widely known most for their hard drives.  Seagate has become somewhat of a high class name so to speak within the hard drive market.  They have a proven past of making quality drives.

The Seagate drive we are examining today is part of their Barracuda 7200 line.  Just like the Hitachi 7K400 drive, the Seagate carries five 80GB platters making this a 400GB hard drive.  Also just like the Hitachi drive it has 8mb of cache.  The Seagate has a 8ms average seek time which is 0.5 seconds faster than the Hitachi model.  The biggest difference between this Seagate drive and the Hitachi 7K400 is the NCQ, the Seagate Barracuda 72000.8 400GB hard drive comes with the Native Command Queuing technology.

 

Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 Specifications

Capacity  400GB
Platter Size  80GB
Number of Platters  3
Average Seek Time  8ms
Buffer Size  8MB
Spindle Speed  7,200 RPM
Interface  PATA, SATA 1.5 Gb/s



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