Seagate turns tide of PC performance

Nov 18th, 2004: Seagate has released a new hard drive disc, which it claims has the ability to improve the performance of PCs that need to run multimedia applications without draining hard drive resources or the speed of operations.

Seagate has also touted the Barracuda 7200.8, with its capacity of 400GB, as being the first hard drive to store up to 133GB on a single disc, which enables Seagate to use fewer discs for faster performance.

This drive is the fourth member of Seagate's Barracuda 7200.8 series, and is available as an Ultra ATA/100 interface and with a Serial ATA interface. The rotational speed of the disc is 7,200 rpm, with an average seek time of 8 milliseconds.

The Serial ATA version takes advantage of Native Command Queuing, which allows the drive to manage multiple commands from the PC in whatever order is the most efficient.

Dave Reinsel, the director of storage research at IDC said: "Seagate's investments in common design platforms, advanced manufacturing, and Six Sigma design and quality processes, have also contributed to its ability over the past several years to deliver reliable, high-quality products."

This technology will particularly help PCs to cope with video footage and downloading options.

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