[CUBE] Seagate Barracuda IV vs. V

[Michael Blossom]

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.