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Seagate claims first 6Gbit/sec, 2TB SATA hard drive

by Planet Lowyat on 23/09/09 at 1:27 pm

Wow! This is really fast! Imaging you can copy how many movies or music per minutes.

Seagate Technology LLC today started shipping a 6Gbit/sec. Serial ATA hard disk drive that offers double the throughput of Seagate’s previous high-end SATA drive. The new 2TB Barracuda XT is the first drive that meets the Serial ATA International Organization’s SATA 3.0 specifications, Seagate said. The Barracuda XT (model ST32000641AS) is a 3.5-in, 7,200-rpm desktop drive with 64MB of cache. It carries a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $299.

Key Features:
* A massive 2-TB drive capacity provides plenty of room for downloading today‘s space-hungry PC games or up to 45 hours of 1080i, HD-DVCPRO-encoded, high-definition video.
* The 7200-RPM performance platform complements high capacity, delivering a power combination of extreme storage and top-end desktop performance.
* A 64-MB cache optimizes burst performance and reduces data throughput bottlenecks.
* The SATA 6Gb/s interface enables the use of the industry‘s newest and fastest hard drive controllers while providing backward compatibility to legacy SATA 1.5Gb/s or 3Gb/s systems.
* Configurable with Seagate® SeaTools™ software—Users can optimize the drive configuration and tune for capacity or performance for the ultimate in customer choice and control.

Check out more detail here.

Source: Computer World