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see this two dimes right there that's how much money you save per

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year going with a 5400 RPM drive or a

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5900 RPM drive versus a 7200 RPM drive

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that is optimized for power efficiency at least that is what Seagate is

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claiming is the reason that they are switching from having a green or an

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eco-friendly optimized lower RPM lower

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performance storage drive and then a middleof the range sort of uh still

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purely magnetic storage so sort of Seagate strategy going forward is going

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to be a little bit different but having a green drive versus a 7200 RPM somewhat

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performance drive and then a higher end drive so in the past they had the

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Barracuda 5900 RPM Drive they had the

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Barracuda 7200 RPM drive and then they had the bar XT which was a 7200 RPM

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drive with better performance more tuning etc etc well now Seagate is doing

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away with that three- tiered approach and they are going with only a single

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pure magnetic drive at least sometime in the future so right now they still have

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the Barracuda this is an eval unit so

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hence the labeling on it and they're still going to have the Barracuda XT but

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the XT is going to be a hybrid Drive in the future and they are completely doing

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away with the lower RPM drives because seate says that for the savings and for

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the performance reduction it is simply not worth the slight decrease in cost

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that a 5400 or 5900 RPM Drive provides

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because in terms of manufacturing they're actually very very similar also

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in terms of the testing and validation process they take longer to validate

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because they spin slower so you actually on the manufacturing level are not

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really saving very much money at all so here we go this is code name Granada

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this is a 7200 RPM this is going to be the Barracuda Drive moving forward and

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then there will be the Barracuda XT at some point in the future it has a 64 Meg

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cache which is all fine and good but what's really interesting about this

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drive is the fact that Seagate now has

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one tbte platters so what do one tab

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platters mean one tab platters mean that your 2 tbte Drive is going to be faster

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due to the increased density of the data storage on the drive so it's going to be

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faster than your old 2 tbte drive and it's also going to be more reliable than

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your old 2 tab drive and the reason for that is that it actually has fewer parts

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inside so fewer points of failure compared to a drive that has a ton of

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platters and a ton of read heads in order to achieve the capacity that it

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has achieved now in terms of the actual

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physical drive itself you're going to notice this looks an awful lot like a

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standard 3 and 1/2 in drive you got your SATA power you got your SATA 6 gbit per

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second or six yeah 6 gabit per second 600 megabit per second no 6 gbit per

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second you wrote 600 megabit per second

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uh either way you've got your SATA 3 6 GB per second interface here you got a

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couple little jumpers there you got your standard mounting holes all that good

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stuff so what is this really about this video isn't really about the unboxing or

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debagging of this particular drive this is more about seates refocus on what is

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best for the consumer so what they're saying is you know what enough of this

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20 cents of savings per year nonsense because honestly you're probably losing

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far more than that in terms of productivity just waiting around for

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your data to be accessed let's not you know charge more for the performance

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drive if it costs as much to manufacture and it uses as much power almost it's

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actually slightly less power efficient than a low RPM drive but let's not

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charge more for it if it doesn't actually cost us more to produce so

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they're going ahead they're saying let's simplify things for the consumer we're

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going to have one drive in a variety of capacities and then on the performance

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side we're going to do hybrid drives we're going to add caching to them they're going to be legitimately much

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higher performance than a standard 7200 RPM drive and that's the only

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differentiation that they're going to have so I say thumbs up to seate for

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simplifying things for the consumer and simplifying things really at every level

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at their own level at the retailer level they don't have to have as many SKS you

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want a hard drive here's a hard drive you want a hybrid Drive here's a hybrid Drive that's pretty much it so thank you

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for checking out my unboxing of the Barracuda CDU unit so I don't know what

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that stands for but there you go and don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech

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