Seagate Intro 2TB Constellation ES Hard Drive [New Constellation & Constellation ES HDDs]

Seagate have taken the wraps off a number of new hard drives, known as the Constellation and Constallation ES ranges, which include their highest ever capacity HDD, the 7,200rpm 2TB Constellation ES – which is set to compete directly with Western Digital’s recently announced 2TB HDD.

The new 2TB Constellation ES hard drive, which is joined by two other 3.5″ Constellation ES HDDs offering 500GB and 1TB capacities, will be made available with either a 3-Gb/s SATA interface or a 6-Gb/s SAS 2.0 interface for ’superior data protection at industry-leading speeds’ and features not only an enhanced power saving mode, PowerChoice, but will also offer government grade security with what Seagate term as an ‘SED-option’.

Additionally, adding to the Constellation range, two standard 7,200rpm Constellation (sans ES designation) hard drives have also been announced offering 160GB and 500GB storage capacities which will sport SATA interfaces with the 500GB unit also being offered with SAS 2.0 interface.

At present Seagate have not detailed the pricing of any of the newly announced Constellation and Constellation ES hard drives though the ES variants will purportedly commence shipping (specifically in Xyratex’s range of storage units) sometime in the summer whilst the standard Constellation HDDs will start appearing sometime in April with Dell already known to be taking up the units.

[Seagate]