On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > The 3 TB 5,900 rpm drives in the former Barracuda family are now called > "desktop" drives. >
It's only the 4TB flavor which is 5900 RPM. The 3TB and lower speeds are, I believe, all 7200 RPM. At any rate, that's what newegg claims in the chart they have on their product page for these drives. I'm not sure what difference it makes whether they call them "Barracuda" or "7200.14" or "Rosebud". It's what's inside the drive and how well Seagate supports it that matters to me. I'm more upset about the warranty period being reduced to two years than a name change ... but what can one do? newegg.com is still listing (most of) Seagate's current 3.5" drives as "Seagate Barracuda", but perhaps that is just to help customer's used to the Seagate's previous naming convention? A different name is only used for the 4TB drive. It is listed as "Seagate Desktop HDD.15" versus "Seagate Barracuda 7200.14". FWIW, if you want to glance at their specs table for the Seage drive below is a link to the page for "Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844 -irrational john -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
