Seagate yesterday announced that they created a special "V-code" for their high-performance Cheetah and Barracuda HDDs. Since multimedia is now occupying more space in disk operations (i.e. there is a large data stream, which isn’t cached), most manufacturers try to create some kind of optimization, which could make the work with such files more efficient. So now they promise that we will be able to operate multimedia files with large data streams without losing any frames or info because the HDD doesn’t cope with this amount of work.
According to the company’s press release, we could expect an incredible improvement, which seems to us quite doubtful, to tell the truth. We assume that there will be a certain improvement made, but it will hardly be significant enough to be called a revolution.
Optimized "V" code will be included in the following HDD models: Cheetah 73 (73.4GB), Cheetah 36LP (36GB), Cheetah 36LP (18GB), and the recently announced Barracuda 180 (180GB). Actually, Seagate hard disk drives have been always famous in the server and multimedia workstation markets for their low access time and high robustness to non-operating shock (when disconnected). Therefore, the new code may add to their good reputation and strengthen their positions in the market even more.