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ST3000DM001 as external hard drives in retail packaging. Anand Lal Shimpi of AnandTech noted that the ST3000DM001 is "a bit faster in sequential performance than the old Barracuda XT, at lower power consumption" and that "Seagate appears to have optimized the drive's behavior for lower power rather than peak performance".
FreeAgent is a line of external hard drives manufactured by Seagate. They include FreeAgent Pro, FreeAgent Desktop, and FreeAgent Go. They range in size from 60 GB to 3 TB. On May 20, 2010, Seagate released an updated range of FreeAgent drives. It includes the FreeAgent Desk, FreeAgent Go, FreeAgent GoFlex and FreeAgent Xtreme.
For the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Series, Seagate offers the "Game Drive" which is a 2–4 TB USB 3.0 external hard drive. Additionally for the Xbox One series, Seagate now offers a "New Game Drive" in capacities of 2–5 TB and a "Game Drive Hub" which has a capacity up to 8 TB, both of which also use the USB 3.0 interface. [83]
securing a 3.5-inch hard disk drive to the case; holding an expansion card in place by its metal slot cover; fastening case components to one another; usually, one or more #6-32 UNC screws hold the main cover on the case; They are almost always provided with a #2 Phillips drive. Sometimes a Green Robertson or Torx drive is used instead. All ...
1994 – Maxtor introduces the first 5 mm thick hard drive. [26] 1996 – Seagate ships the first 10,000-rpm hard drive, the Cheetah [42] 1997 – IBM Deskstar 16 GB "Titan" – 16,800 megabytes, five 3.5-inch disks; first Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) heads; 1997 – Seagate introduces the first hard drive with fluid bearings [44]
Western Digital WD740GD 74 GB Raptor, a 10,000 rpm 3.5-inch HDD drive platter, Western Digital Caviar SE16 SATA 3.5-inch Hard Disk Drive. In 2001, Western Digital became the first manufacturer to offer mainstream ATA hard disk drives with 8 MiB of disk buffer. At that time, most desktop hard disk drives had 2 MB of buffer.
Modern hard drives feature an ability to recover from some read/write errors by internally remapping sectors and performing other forms of self-test and recovery. The process for this can sometimes take several seconds or (under heavy usage) minutes, during which time the drive is unresponsive.
RAID (/ r eɪ d /; redundant array of inexpensive disks or redundant array of independent disks) [1] [2] is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical data storage components into one or more logical units for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both.