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The phenomenal growth of storage space has truly become a nighmare of sorts for ISP's trying to keep up with bandwidth hungry downloaders across the globe. It wasn't too long ago when a 80GB hard drive would set you back a few hundred ringgit, now barely a couple of years on, you could grab a 500GB monster for a little under RM300!
Seagate today debuted the Barracuda® 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive, the eleventh
generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs. This drive 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.
Read on for more details.
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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