The Trader’s Hard Disk Drive
The First 3.5-inch perpendicular drive

By Larry Jacobs
If there was every a drive make for a trader’s computer, this is the one. Seagate now produces a new Barracuda 7200.10 drive. If you know anything about drives, it is known everywhere that the Barracuda is and always has been the quietest drive available. Seagate is the world’s premier storage provider, delivering years of reliable service and high performance. Using advanced manufacturing techniques and extensive design experience, Seagate engineers have built the tenth-generation 7200 RPM desktop disk drive, which is perfect for trader’s computers. This drive now is the leader in the combination of capacity, performance and reliability for the trader.

The one we really like is the new Perpendicular Seagate 320MB drive for the trader. It is a SATA 3Gb per second 16-Mbyte cache drive.

Perpendicular recording in the drive increases the data density while decreasing moving parts for a more dependable drive. Since traders are the hardest on drives, this fits the trader better than any other drive. As you know a trader many times runs his computer 24 hours a day. His computer is connected to the internet viewing charts for eSignal, Tradestation or another data vendor. Data is coming in the computer continuously and that causes the drive to run all the time without a rest. This is why many trader’s drives go out within a year. Because this drive has less moving parts to wear out it is superior to other competing drives such as Western Digital, Maxtor and the like.

It has Adaptive Fly Height that offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of the trading day.

It also has a clean sweep that automatically calibrates the drive each time the computer is powered up.

Its directed offline scan run diagnostics when storage is not required.

This is the first 3.5-inch perpendicular recording drive that is combined with the highest available capacity that reduces system repairs and store upgrades. Reliability is one of the most important aspects to the trader.

This drive also has Seagate’s SoftSonic motor that enables whisper quiet operation perfect to the trader. The trader needs to have a quiet computer for concentration. The drive runs with only 2.5 bels acoustics at idle. Lower than any other drive.

It also has enhanced G-Force Protection that defends against handling damage. That means when the computer is shipped to you, the drive will not be damaged by handling of Fedex or UPS.

The drive also has a five-year warranty which is perfect for the trader’s investment.

The trading application determines the capacity that a trader needs in a drive. This Seagate 320Gb drive will handle any application that we know of today. This drive offers also multiple configurations to ensure optimal application performance.

This drive is the result of more than 10 years of research by Seagate. Perpendicular recording is now a proven technology. It increases capacity and dependability by storing data vertically, rather than horizontally. And vertically stored data bits mean increased data density and more gigabytes per platter.

This drive is perfect for the trader’s computer. It can be configured as a signal drive, two drives using mirroring for redundancy, two drives using Raid 0 for speed which traders often need for backtesting, three drives using Raid 5 for both speed and redundancy and finally using two drives with a cloning software.

Sonata Trading Computers now using this drive exclusively in their trading computers.

For more information contact them at 800-288-4266 www.sonatatradingcomputers.com