Seagate Launches 1.5TB Desktop HDD
Every time I think I have enough storage space in my computer, I end up needing more. My movie library or photo library grows and I add more video games and before I know it I need more storage.
Seagate announced a new HDD today that would be hard to fill up. The new Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive has 1.5TB of storage space. The 500GB growth from the previous capacity leading 1TB is the largest increase in 50-years according to Seagate.
Seagate credits advancements in perpendicular magnetic recording techniques for the increase in capacity. The drive spins at 7200 rpm and has a 16MB cache. Inside the drive are four platters that together make up 1.5TB. The Hitachi 1YB drive announced this week uses 3 platters to reach its capacity. The new 1.5TB drive offers the option of bulk data encryption as well with AES encryption. Seagate also introduced a 5400 rpm and a 7200 rpm 2.5-inch drives that have a storage capacity of 500GB.
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GADGEToholic » Blog Archive » Hitachi Announces New DVR CinemaStar Hard Drives says:
July 30th, 2008 at 9:26 am[...] ship in September. I would like to see Seagate bring its newly announced and sufficiently massive 1.5TB drive to the DVR market as [...]
Hitachi Announces New CinemaStar DVR Hard Drives | Gizmo Hacker says:
July 31st, 2008 at 1:20 am[...] ship in September. I would like to see Seagate bring its newly announced and sufficiently massive 1.5TB drive to the DVR market as [...]