Seagate ST1 questions

The bigger question is, why would anyone work with these drives now? That size range of nonvolatile storage is more or less completely swallowed by flash devices; wholly flash-based CF cards are available in the same size and larger.

BTW if you look closely, you'll see that many of those photos show drives labeled "Certified Repaired HDD". I don't know about you, but I don't buy repaired hard drives.

You don't need a "chipset" to talk to a storage CF card; it is easy to interface to any memory bus as a memory-mapped I/O device, though of course you won't get DMA that way.

If you read the references, you'll see that this is to remind users that it is not intended for use as the primary drive in a computer; it presumably has duty cycle limitations.

Hello! And, I am inclined to agree with all of your statements. However I discussed the issues with an associate at Seagate's Second Level support at great length. I am of the opinion if this design passes the prototype stages I will end up buying more of these from listed dealers who definitely do not sell disk drives such as:

I decidedly to buy the thing because of that. So we'll see what happens further.