Bigbruin.com reviewed the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB SATA Hard Drive which combines all of the latest drive technologies into one impressive package.

Seagate really does have the Steve Austin of hard drives on their hands with the Barracuda 7200.10, as it really is better, stronger, faster. Better in terms of the lower noise, and lower heat production provided in part by the implementation of perpendicular recording technology. Stronger thanks to greater shock tolerance and reliability also provided by perpendicular recording technology. And faster as proven by testing. Native Command Queueing, a 3 Gbps SATA interface, 16MB of cache memory, and yes, perpendicular recording technology all chip on that.

One thing the 6 Million Dollar Man didn't have going for him was being "bigger", which is obviously something the 7200.10 does have. At 750 GB, it is the industry leader in size and 50% larger than its 'little' brother, the 500 GB 7200.9. It may be hard for many to imagine filling this drive, but with a vast collection of digital multimedia files, digital home videos, or other large files, typical drives can fill up fast.

On a side note, one thing worth considering on a drive of this size is how to back it up. No matter how reliable or how long the warranty is, important data should be backed up, as data loss isn't always the fault of the hard drive. But, considering the size of this drive, your options for complete redundancy are rather limited, aren't they?

Damn!

I'm impressed. 65MB/s avg read speed is damn nice. After all the raptor can only muster an avg read speed of maybe 5-10 more than that at most. Imagine a 750GB 10K drive? :P

The $500 is a little harsh, but it's not like the price won't go down. This is after all brand spanking new technology. Just the idea of having two of these in a raid 0 makes me feel all funny inside, and then shreek in terror at the thought of 1.5TB of data going down the tubes if the drives fart.

It almost sounds like you'd pretty much have to run a mirror raid to be safe, unless you want to have over 100 DVDs worth of backup media, or your own SDLT setup. :lol:

At least they back it up with that insane 5 year warrantee. But why they keep the MTBF a secret is beyond me. That is unless it's 600,000 or less.

If WD gets on the ball and makes a drive in their RE2 line with this kind of capacity and speed, its all mine. DVD storage server time baby!! :D