Friday, July 11, 2008
Seagate Technology announced launching a new 3.5-inch desktop PC drive packing 1.5 Terabytes. The Barracuda 7200.11 shipping in August uses four platters with 375 Gbytes per platter.
The news comes just days after rival Hitachi rolled out a Terabyte drive using just three platters with 333 Gbytes per platter. All the drive makers are racing to squeeze the most capacity possible out of their recent shift to perpendicular recording technology.
In the leapfrog game of hard drive capacity it's not clear when competitors such as Hitachi, Samsung and Western Digital will follow suit with their own 1.5 Tbyte products.
Seagate has positioned the drive at high-end desktop PCs. Rydning said it would be a logical move for Seagate to also use the drives in its retail products aimed at external consumer storage for home networks.
By: DocMemory
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