1.5TB HDDs
There are huge amounts of information flowing all over the Internet and it seems like we are already making the transition from gigabytes towards terabytes. I, for one, can’t deal with my 400 GB total storage space. When I finally make some space by transferring stuff to DVDs, all that freed space gets immediately clogged with new stuff and I personally don’t like to have heaps and heaps of DVDs. I could buy a 1TB HDD or, better yet, maybe I should buy a couple of the newly announced Seagate 1.5 TB HDDs.
The 1.5 TB HDD is actually Seagate’s 11th generation in the flagship Barracuda 7200 family. Seagate claims that this is the largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, which is due to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.
The improved Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive generation combines proven PMR technology, components and expert manufacturing to provide a maximum capacity of 1.5TB of reliable storage for mainstream desktop computers, workstations, desktop RAID, gaming rigs and high-end PCs, plus the standard USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage types.
The largest capacity drives pack 1.5TB on just four platters and come with fast Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface in order to deliver an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 120MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access. The standard desktop 3.5-inch drive will also be available in smaller capacities of 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, 500GB, 320GB and 160GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.
The new Barracuda 7200.11 line will be released this August.
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