Seagate Squeezes More Data onto Discs

By Greg McNevin

January 7, 2009: Seagate has rolled out a new range of Barracuda hard drives featuring what it claims is the industries highest areal density, packing 1TB of capacity into just two discs.

The new line of 3.5-inch, 7200.12 HD Serial ATA drives can cram 329 Gigabits into a square inch, and deliver a sustained data rate of up to 160 MB/s.

Seagate says this enables faster boot times, increased application speed, and greater file access capabilities with burst speeds of 3Gb/second.

“Demand for more desktop PC storage capacity is far from letting up as computer users worldwide generate massive amounts of digital content every day,” says Tom Major, vice president of Seagate’s Personal Compute Business. “Seagate is leading the industry with new storage solutions designed to store, share and manage all of that business- and user-generated content.”

The drives are available in capacities of 1TB, 750GB and 500GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

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