Seagate has announced that the world’s first 1.5TB harddrive would appear earlier this month and so it did. With high-density platters, 32MB cache and native SATAII technology it looked like a drive to reckon with. Over at Xtreme CPU they have tested the new drive and compared it to Samsung’s praised SpinPoint F1 1TB drive and the acknowledged Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB. While the VelociRaptor humiliates the other drives in terms of access time, it does get good competition in the transfer rate tests, which is most likely a result of the dense platters used by both the Seagate and Samsung drives.
The only real shame is that you “lose” more than 100GB when you format the Seagate harddrive. Otherwise it seems like a real killer with an attractive price and top notch performance. You can get it for around $190, which is one of the lowest buck per gigabyte ratios you can find today. A drive like this should keep you supplied with enough storage until the price of Solid State Drive reach reasonable levels.
