Seagate serve up seriously large platter

Disk storage manufacturer Seagate has introduced the world's first hard drive to fit 100 gigabytes of data on a single 3.5-inch platter. The new addition to the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 family achieves a 200-Gbyte capacity using only two platters, and offers the choice of a Parallel ATA (PATA) or native Serial ATA (SATA) interface.

The Barracuda 7200.7 is the industry's first hard drive family capable of supporting SATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ). NCQ will be implemented on production Barracuda 7200.7 SATA hard drives when system architectures that support NCQ become more broadly available. NCQ is a feature that can only be implemented on native Serial ATA hard drives like Seagate's.

NCQ technology enables the hard drive to intelligently reorder and optimise both read and write command execution, improving the performance of queued workloads by minimising mechanical positioning latencies on the drive.

Seagate is touting the new hard drive as suitable for near-line storage applications, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), entry-level ATA servers, mainstream and high-performance PCs, and home entertainment PCs.

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