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It hasn't even been long since we first saw 1TB drives hit the market, but here Seagate goes and throws 50% more storage into the same amount of space. Seagate claims that this bump is the largest ever, in the over fifty years that hard drives have been around. Of course, this is all thanks to the much-touted perpendicular magnetic recording.
The new Barracuda 7200.11 features four platters (at what would be 375GB each) and promises a sustained data rate of up to 120MB/s. We'll have to wait for the reviews to see just how accurate this measure is. Like Seagate's other higher-end drives, this one will feature 32MB of cache, which I actually have found to make a reasonable difference in my personal machine for copying smaller sets of files.
In addition to the new Barracuda 7200.11, Seagate also announced a new flagship Momentus 7200.4 500GB, a mobile offering that offers both lots of storage space, in addition to fast 7200RPM speeds that we are used to on the desktop. It took a while to happen, but you can now be a mobile warrior and actually have the storage and speed you'd like. Neither of these two products have suggested prices, but we'll find out next month when they are launched into the market.
Update: Seagate tells us that the 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 will carry an SRP of $450. No pricing information available for the Momentus drive yet, however.
The debut of the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB, the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs, marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives - a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.
Source: Seagate Press Release
The new Barracuda 7200.11 features four platters (at what would be 375GB each) and promises a sustained data rate of up to 120MB/s. We'll have to wait for the reviews to see just how accurate this measure is. Like Seagate's other higher-end drives, this one will feature 32MB of cache, which I actually have found to make a reasonable difference in my personal machine for copying smaller sets of files.
In addition to the new Barracuda 7200.11, Seagate also announced a new flagship Momentus 7200.4 500GB, a mobile offering that offers both lots of storage space, in addition to fast 7200RPM speeds that we are used to on the desktop. It took a while to happen, but you can now be a mobile warrior and actually have the storage and speed you'd like. Neither of these two products have suggested prices, but we'll find out next month when they are launched into the market.
Update: Seagate tells us that the 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 will carry an SRP of $450. No pricing information available for the Momentus drive yet, however.
The debut of the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB, the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs, marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives - a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.
Source: Seagate Press Release