Seagate Unveils 2-Platter 1TB Barracuda 7200.12 Hard Drive

Seagate has joined Western Digital with bringing to the market a 2TB hard drive. Packing 1TB of capacity on just two disks, Seagates Barracuda 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive features an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch to deliver the best combination of capacity, performance and reliability for PCs, desktop RAID and personal external storage.

Demand for more desktop PC storage capacity is far from letting up as computer users worldwide generate massive amounts of digital content every day, said Tom Major, Seagate vice president , Personal Compute Business. Seagate is leading the industry with new storage solutions designed to store, share and manage all of that business- and user-generated content.

The Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive provides a stellar combination of storage capacity and speed required for todays most demanding desktop PC applications. The drives Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 160MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 750GB and 500GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

Seagate also announced its Constellation: All-Star Enterprise Hard Drives. The two new drive models, the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives, include a combination of features that enable high capacities, increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security. Both drives also include PowerChoice from Seagate, which decreases power consumption by up to 54% for record power savings in enterprise environments.

The Constellation 2.5-inch hard drive is offered in capacities of 160GB and 500GB with both 3 Gbps SATA and new SAS 2.0 interface running at 6Gb/s speeds. As the first SAS 2.0 nearline drive, the Constellation hard drive enables larger external storage topologies, 100% faster data throughput and higher signal strength over greater distances dramatically increasing storage scalability

The 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drive will be available in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, and with an enterprise-class SAS interface as well as a SATA version, and provides best-in-class capacity and performance. As the worlds only 7200-rpm 3.5-inch hard drive providing up to 2TB of storage, the record-setting capacity of Constellation ES hard drives are ideal for 3.5-inch based external storage architectures.

Pricing and Availability:
Seagate Barracuda ST31000528AS 7200.12 1TB SATA Drive $115.54