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Pitfalls in Parallelism
Seven Deadly Limitations (I)
Seven Deadly Limitations (II)
Tagged Comand Queuing
Transitional Solutions
SATA Clocking, LVDS and Cabling
Staggered Pins For HotSwap
Cyclic Redundancy Check Error Detection
Seagate Barracuda SATA V
Test Setup and HDTach
WinBench 98 Business
WinBench98 HE
Conclusion
 Seagate Barracuda SATA V    
Serial ATA and the 7 Deadly Sins Of Parallel ATA
(Review by MS, September 15, 2002)
Seagate Barracuda V

Serial ATA is being embraced by the entire hard disk drive industry with the exception of IBM who have no plans of moving into serial interface technology at this point. WesternDigital, Maxtor and Fujitsu all have pre-production drives ready for showcasing, however, all three companies currently use original parallel drives that were upgraded to feature a bridge adapter built into the drive. The only pure SATA solution on the horizon is currently the Seagate Barracuda V.


The "Cuda V" is the first true SATA 150 drive that will hit the market. The 4 pin header next to power and data interface is there to limit the drive capacity to 32 GBytes. Compared to most drives, the Cuda looks and feels somewhat different, that is, more like a safe deposit box than a HDD.

For noise reduction and shock / vibration protection, a foam layer is added at the bottom of the drive, that is, between the drive itself and the "SeaShield". The only problem we see with this is that the drive is running quite hot. Otherwise, it really is amazingly quiet. On the left, the staggered pin formation of both power and data connector is visible.

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