Seagate Intro Barracuda 7200.11 SATA Hard Disk [World’s First 1.5 Terabyte HDD]

Seagate have offered initial details concerning its up and coming
Barracuda 7200.11 SATA Hard Disk which has the distinction of being the
world's first 1.5 terabyte HDD and, thanks to the Barracuda seeing a
jump in capacity from 1TB to 1.5TB is also touted by Seagate as being
the 'largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century
history of hard drives'.'Organizations and consumers of all kinds
worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at
levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new applications
and demand for desktop and notebook computers with unprecedented storage
capacity, performance and reliability,' said Michael Wingert, Seagate
executive vice president and general manager, Personal Compute Business
who introduced the new 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11. 'Seagate is committed to
powering the next generation of computing today with the planet's
fastest, highest-capacity and most reliable storage solutions.'Serving
as the eleventh generation of Seagate's flagship Barracuda HDD, the
7200.11 - which is aimed at desktop PCs - utilises perpendicular
magnetic recording (PMR) technology using just four platters and offers
a purported industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 120MB/second
via a Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface and, according to Seagate's press
release, will begin shipping in august (08) though, at this juncture, no
pricing details have been made available.

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