Seagate Ships Desktop Hard Drive

Offers an areal density – 500GB per disk.

by DE Editors | Published January 14, 2009

Seagate (Scotts Valley, CA) announced first-to-market volume shipments of a mainstream desktop hard drive with the industry's highest areal density, stated the company. Packing 1TB of capacity on just two disks, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive features an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch to deliver the best combination of capacity, performance and reliability for PCs, desktop RAID and personal external storage.

The Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive provides a stellar combination of storage capacity and speed required for today's most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive's Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 160MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 750GB and 500GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

For details, contact Seagate.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.

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