Seagate Unveils World’s First 1.5TB Hard Drive

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Seagate today announced their new Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive which marks the largest single jump in capacity for hard drives in 50 years. The drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording technology to achieve the breakthrough.

Seagate was beaten to the 1 terabyte level by Hitachi at the start of 2007 and were not about to let that happen again with the next milestone.

The drive stores data over four platters and uses the SATA 3GB/s interface to achieve top sustained data transfer rates of up to 120MB/s.

The drive is set for an August release this year for an unspecified price.

Sources:
Seagate
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