Seagate Announces the World’s First 1.5TB Desktop HDD – The Barracuda 7200.11
By Roland Hutchinson on Friday 11th July 2008 5:52 pm in Gadgets
Seagate has launched a new desktop hard drive, with a massive 1.5TB of storage, the Barracuda 7200.11.
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.
The Barracuda 7200.11 features four platters of 375GB and has a data transfer rate of 120MB a second.
This 3.5 inch SATA HDD will go on sale in August, there is no word on pricing as yet.
via Akihabara News
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July 11th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Holy Crimeny = that’s a lot of storage. It looks like you can use these gadgets in a RAID array though which would make total sense for data/music/picture backups, ect.