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Seagate unveiled the industry’s first
1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook
hard drives to meet explosive worldwide demand
for digital-content storage in home and business
environments.
The debut of the Barracuda® 7200.11 1.5TB hard
drive, 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.
The
Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines proven PMR
technology, components and expert manufacturing
to provide 1.5TB of reliable storage for
mainstream desktop computers, workstations,
desktop RAID, gaming and high-end PCs, and
USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.
Seagate’s new 2.5-inch half-terabyte 5400- and
7200-rpm drives – Momentus® 5400.6 and Momentus
7200.4 – deliver the best combination of
capacity, mobility and durability for mainstream
and high-performance notebook computers,
external storage solutions, PCs and industrial
applications requiring small form factor.
Highlighting the global growth of digital
content, Seagate expects to ship its two
billionth hard drive within the next five years.
Earlier this year Seagate shipped its one
billionth hard drive since the company’s
inception nearly 30 years ago.
“Organizations and consumers of all kinds
worldwide continue to create, share and consume
digital content at levels never before seen,
giving rise to new markets, new applications and
demand for desktop and notebook computers with
unprecedented storage capacity, performance and
reliability,” said Michael Wingert, Seagate
executive vice president and general manager,
Personal Compute Business. “Seagate is committed
to powering the next generation of computing
today with the planet’s fastest,
highest-capacity and most reliable storage
solutions.”
Momentus 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4 hard drives
are the fourth generation of Seagate’s laptop
family to use PMR. The Momentus 5400.6, a
5400-rpm drive, combines a powerful Serial ATA
3Gb/second interface and capacities ranging from
120GB to 500GB with an 8MB cache.
The
Momentus 7200.4 hard drive, with its 7200-rpm
spin speed and a Serial ATA 3GB/second
interface, delivers true desktop performance.
The power-efficient 7200-rpm drive maximizes
battery life and comes in capacities ranging
from 250GB to 500GB with a 16MB cache.
Both Momentus drives are built tough enough to
withstand up to 1,000 Gs of non-operating shock
and 350 Gs of operating shock to protect drive
data, making the drives ideal for systems that
are subject to rough handling or high levels of
vibration. For added robustness in mobile
environments, the Momentus 5400.6 and 7200.4 are
offered with G-Force Protection, a free-fall
sensor technology that helps prevent drive
damage and data loss upon impact if a laptop PC
is dropped. The sensor works by detecting any
changes in acceleration equal to the force of
gravity and parks the heads off the disc to
prevent contact with the platter in a free fall
of as little as 8 inches and within 3/10ths of a
second.
Seagate’s new Momentus drives are lean on power
consumption, allowing notebook users to work
longer between battery charges, and are
virtually inaudible thanks to Seagate’s
innovative SoftSonic™ fluid-dynamic bearing
motors and QuietStep™ ramp load technology.
The
Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines the
capacity and speed required for today’s most
demanding desktop PC applications. The drive
packs 1.5TB on just four platters and its fast
Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an
industry-leading sustained data rate of up to
120MB/second for fast boot, application startup
and file access. The 3.5-inch drive is also
offered in capacities of 1TB, 750GB, 640GB,
500GB, 320GB and 160GB with cache options of
32MB and 16MB.
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