Seagate is launching the first 6Gbit/s 2TB drive, the Barracuda XT, and altering the Barracuda naming convention at the same time.
Seagate’s Barracuda XT features a 2TB capacity
Instead of the ‘Barracuda 7200.11′ and ’7200.12′, with the suffix signifying the 11th and 12th generations of a drive spinning at 7200rpm, the new drives will be the mainstream ‘Barracuda [...]
Seagate has extended its range of encrypting drives to cover all its enterprise products.The Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option is now available across theSavvio 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation and Cheetah 15K.7 productranges. These drives should work with users’ encryptioninfrastructures. Seagate says Intel and LSI are now shipping local keymanagement and 6Gbit/s SAS products. These have TCG-based (TrustedComputing [...]
Seagate announced that it is first to ship a SATA III desktop hard-drive with the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA III HDD (ST32000641AS).
The Seagate Barracuda XT is a 7200RPM HDD featuring 2TB of storage capacity and the new blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gbcond interface. Of course to leverage the new speeds you need a new [...]
Seagate has launched the world’s first SATA-600 hard disk targeted to desktop, Barracuda XT (ST32000641AS). This new 2 TB disk makes use of four 500 GB platters, works at 7200 RPM, supports NCQ technology, has 64 MB of buffer, average time seek of 4.16 ms and is backward compatible with SATA-150 and SATA-300 standards. By using [...]
Much like Western Digital with its energy-efficient Green series, mainstream Blue series and high-performance/enthusiast oriented Black series desktop HDDs, Seagate now has a three-tier arrangement in place with their latest high-performance XT series of drives shipping to distributors as of today. Seagate also has the existing Barracuda LP series drives for low-power users and of [...]
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