On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Peter Kurilecz <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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>
> it is not a portable as far as i can tell from the photo
>
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right, not a half-height (for a laptop) but it could be put in any powered
enclosure or a desktop "box" of any sort.


from the article
> "the Seagate drives aren’t very fast with reading and writing data (150MB/s
> versus 1,800MB/s and 5,900RPM vs 7,200RPM, respectively)."
>

Yeah so they aren't much slower than other normal desktop drives, but the
volume of data it has to ferret through to put the pieces together would
likely make it a bit slower overall.



> also from the article
> " they’re designed more for data archival (to avoid storing “all our eggs
> in one basket,” you could buy multiple drives and use them in a RAID
> configuration
>

Which would likely be more reliable for deep storage.  Seagate hasn't had
the best reputation in the recent (5-6 years) past... lots of stories about
their drives lasting about a year before problems start to crop up
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
so that makes this $260 "deal" a bit less attractive.

SSDs are coming down in price quite a bit
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269.html
but the best you're regularly seeing is 512GB for a similar price point.

That said, they aren't designed for "archiving" data, but they are BLAZING
fast on boot-up !!

-- 
Larry
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