Seagate have announced “industry’s first 250GB-per-disc, 3.5-inch disc drive.” They call this the second-generation of perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The new Barracuda 7200.10 which apparently has 180GB of storage capacity per square inch, also sports the speedy SATA 3Gb/s interface to get all that storage into your life extra fast.
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Seagate Squeezes 250GB On One Platter
Friday, June 8th, 2007ST96812AS Head Crash
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
See the gouge near the middle of the disk.
Yet another attempted data recovery was thwarted today by the dreaded head crash. We have seen possible head problems with these drives and were not surprised when the drive didn’t come ready and identify. This particular drive, an ST96812AS from a MacBook Pro was giving off some interesting sound effects to say the least. Expecting the usual failed read/write head we took it into the cleanroom and removed the cover. This drive had clearly had a head crash. Not only was a large area of magnetic media forcefully gouged off by a stray head but there was also a faint scrape towards the outer edge. We have seen this minor damage on these drives before and still been able to recover some data, although the read/write heads don’t tend to last very long. Data recovery after a head crash like this one is impossible and will be a waste of donor parts and spare drives.