Seagate Intro Barracuda 7200.11 SATA Hard Disk [World’s First 1.5 Terabyte HDD]

Seagate have offered initial details concerning its up and coming Barracuda 7200.11 SATA Hard Disk which has the distinction of being the world’s first 1.5 terabyte HDD and, thanks to the Barracuda seeing a jump in capacity from 1TB to 1.5TB is also touted by Seagate as being the ‘largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives’.

‘Organizations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new applications and demand for desktop and notebook computers with unprecedented storage capacity, performance and reliability,’ said Michael Wingert, Seagate executive vice president and general manager, Personal Compute Business who introduced the new 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11. ‘Seagate is committed to powering the next generation of computing today with the planet’s fastest, highest-capacity and most reliable storage solutions.’

Serving as the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship Barracuda HDD, the 7200.11 – which is aimed at desktop PCs - utilises perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology using just four platters and offers a purported industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 120MB/second via a Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface and, according to Seagate’s press release, will begin shipping in august (08) though, at this juncture, no pricing details have been made available.

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