Wednesday February 11, 2009
Barracuda with more bite
HARD disk maker Seagate recently introduced the Barracuda 7200.12 HD, its first mainstream desktop hard drive to feature high areal density that allows to store more data on each disk.
The 7,200rpm Barracuda drive packs 1TB (terabyte) of storage capacity on 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, Seagate said.
The drive’s Serial ATA 3Gbps (gigabits per second) interface delivers sustained data rate of up to 160MBps for fast boot, application startup and file access.
If 1TB of storage is too much for you, the 3.5in drive also comes in 750GB and 500GB capacities with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.
The Seagate Barracuda is available now and is priced at RM405 for 1TB, RM350 for 750GB and RM215 for 500GB.
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www.seagate-asia.com
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