[CUBE] Seagate Barracuda IV vs. V

[Joakim Skog]

This is the spec page at Seagate for my drive:
http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,572,00
.html

It's Ultra-ATA/100, so it will work. I guess the tech person referred to the
Serial ATA-version, which won't work.

I bought from Swedish distributor http://www.inwarehouse.se which has it for
about $220 (for comparison, the 2MB cache version costs $150).

/J
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Blossom" <blossom at megsinet.net>
To: "Cube List" <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [CUBE] Seagate Barracuda IV vs. V


> What about what was said below, that the ones with 8mb have an interface
> which isn't compatible with the Cube?  Is that incorrect?
>
> - Mike
>
> >I've got a Barracuda V with 8 Mb cache. I haven't installed it yet, so I
> >can't give you any benchmarks, but I hope to have time to do it soon. The
> >model number on the drive is ST3120024A and I hope to see a (small)
> >performance gain compared to my 80 Gb Barracuda IV when working in
ProTools,
> >for example.
> >
> >/Joakim
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Toby Leung" <jstobias at uclink.berkeley.edu>
> >To: "Cube List" <Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 3:44 PM
> >Subject: Re: [CUBE] Seagate Barracuda IV vs. V
> >
> >
> >> This is from seagate:
> >>
> >> From: Disc.PreSales.Email.Support at seagate.com
> >> Date: Mon Nov 11, 2002  8:02:00 AM US/Pacific
> >> To: jstobias at uclink.berkeley.edu
> >> Subject: Re: |||ATA|How much quieter are the
> >>
> >>
> >>   In response to you inquiries regarding Barracuda Ultra ATA IV and
> >>   Barracuda V are 7,200-rpm hard drives accoustic, we must tell you
that
> >>   both models have Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motors which makes them
> >> the
> >>   world's only virtually silent hard drives.  The Barracuda V is a new
> >> model
> >>   and it will be the best combination of performance, acoustics and
> >>   reliability.   There are no significant differences other than the
> >>   Barracuda V has a slower transfer rate so it can RAID. The RAID
> >> controller
> >>   cards had trouble with a 50 Mega Bytes per Second transfer so it is
> >> slowed
> >>   down to 44MB/sec.
> >>
> >>
> >>   Regards,
> >>
> >>   Ahiezer B.
> >>   Disc Presales
> >>
> >>
> >> about the 8mb buffer. Seagate is producing or will produce an 8mb
> >> barracuda V with a serial ATA interface. This interface isn't
> >> compatible with the cube.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.
>
>
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