1.5 TB Barracuda HDD here soon
Rectron is gearing up to launch Seagate’s largest-ever hard drive for desktop PCs – the Barracuda 7200.11.
“Seagate has pipped the likes of Hitachi and Western Digital (WD) to the post with the launch of the world’s first 1.5 terabyte (TB) hard drive,” says Werner Joubert, storage business manager at Rectron.
“Due to the high global growth of digital content, the new Barracuda 7200.11 will cater for any storage need, especially in the digital media market where storage always becomes a pain.
If you are running storage servers, you will not only need to install fewer hard drives for more storage space, but you will also save on other resources, since fewer drives means lower workloads, which will also expand the life of your storage systems.”
As the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 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.
The Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive is designed for mainstream desktop computers, workstations, desktop RAID, gaming and high-end PCs, and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.
Packing 1.5TB on just four platters, its fast Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 120MB/second for fast boot, application start-up and file access.
This 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 1TB, 750 GB, 640 GB, 500 GB, 320 GB, 160 GB and 80GB with cache options of 32 MB, 16 MB & 8MB.
According to Joubert Seagate never goes above four platters per hard disk drive.
“This enables each drive to have a massive 750 000 hours mean time before failure (MTBF), which means you can run the drive nonstop for 85 years before any failure occurs,” he explains.
“The four platters per drive also results in less heat generated than other vendors’ 1 TB drives, which have five platters. You can easily see the quality in research and development that goes into Seagate drives, compared to the lesser workmanship that goes into the other brands.”
Rectron plans to start shipping the new Barracuda at the end of August 2008, with a recommended retail price of R3 599.
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