Seagate Barracuda 2TB ST2000DM001 Hard Drive Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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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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