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by Rafael Hernandez on April 20, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at the Hitachi 7K400 and the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 hard drives. The drives have SerialATA interfaces but only the Seagate is a native SATA drive with Native Command Queuing support. Seagate has quite the product on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 31, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report takes a crack at a mass storage harddrive from Seagate. The Barracuda 7200.8 has all of the features you’d expect from a new SerialATA drive including large storage space and native command queuing support. Decent speed and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

AMDGamer has the details on the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB hard drive. Besides its obvious massive storage size the drive uses the much more widely adopted (now) SerialATA connection with native command queuing thrown in. A solid drive mixing good…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 17, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Repoert has a look at the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA based drive featuring Native Command Queuing (NCQ). It’s one of the few drives on the market to support the feature which can give a bit of a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 17, 2004 · 0 comments

ComputerWorld has the low-down on a new 400GB SerialATA drive from Seagate which makes use of native command queuing (NCQ). A shiney new massive storage drive which uses performance enhancing techniques is always a good thing….

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2004 · 0 comments

ViperLair tests out the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 which just so happens to feature Native Command Queuing support which can boost drive performance quite a bit and is one of the more compelling reasons to swith to Serial-ATA. Then again…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a snazzy little drive on the review block today in the form of a 2.5″ drive from Seagate named Savvio. The drive has a spin speed of 10,000RPM besting the majority of 3.5″ desktop drives and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2004 · 0 comments

Gamers Depot has the skinny on Seagate’s newest Barracuda hard drive. This 160GB, Serial-ATA unit sports Native Command Queuing feature which allows the drive to access data out of order which gives it a bit of a performance boost. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 2, 2004 · 0 comments

Storage Review does their usual, exhaustive testing on three hard drives in their work shop. Western Digital, Seagate, and Hitachi are in the lineup this time with drive sizes coming in at 250, 200, and 400GB respectively. All three perform…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Seagate is extending the warranty for most of their hard drive lines manufactured after June 1st. The coverage length for drives is now 5 years instead of the rather short 1 year period which most drive manufacturers had adopted as…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 29, 2004 · 0 comments

Think Computers has a look at the Vantec NexStar external hard drive chassis. The sleek unit can take most any 3.5″ hard drive and allows you to access it by either of its two Firewire ports or the USB 2.0…

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