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Seagate Ships 400GB Drive
KingFish
November 17, 2004 11:56 PM ET in Tech
Hard-disk drive maker Seagate Technology has started shipping a drive targeted at personal computers that offers 400GBof storage space. The company is the second to offer such a drive, following Hitachi’s attack on this space with the Deskstar 7K400.
Increasing popularity of PC-based multimedia applications, particularly home video editing and downloading of movies and TV shows from peer-to-peer networks, is driving demand for larger capacity hard-disk drives in the PC space. In addition to high-storage capacities, such drives need to be able to read and write data to the drive fast enough to keep up with real-time video.
The drive is the fourth member of Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.8 series of drives and is available in two versions, one with an Ultra ATA/100 interface and one with a Serial ATA interface. The rotational speed of the disc is 7200 rpm (revolutions per minute), with an average seek time of 8 milliseconds.
Seagate follows Hitachi’s trail. Hitachi released its own 400GB drive in March which offers 400GB at 7200rpm. So, Seagate appears to be eight months behind Hitachi GST in this particular hard drive race.
Source: TechWorld
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