SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—10 October 2005—Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX),
the world's top supplier of disc drives, today announced the
availability of its Barracuda 7200.9 family of internal hard drives to
the worldwide distribution channel. Targeted at low-cost and Serial ATA
(SATA) servers, mainstream and high-performance PCs, PC gaming systems
and media PCs, the new Barracuda 7200.9 family combines up to a massive
half-terabyte capacity with fast 3Gbit/second Serial ATA throughput and
leading-edge storage technologies such as Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
to deliver the industry's highest levels of performance and
reliability.
"System builders are increasingly demanding advanced storage
capabilities that enable their products to move more digital content at
higher speeds in both single- and multi-user environments," said Brian
Dexheimer, Seagate executive vice president of Global Sales and
Marketing. "With the Barracuda 7200.9 family, Seagate is delivering the
industry's leading combination of capacity, performance, and
reliability to meet the system performance and reliability requirements
for applications including digital video editing and production,
CAD/CAM, and data and image analysis."
"Seagate, the leader in desktop PC hard drive market share for more
than three years, has improved its desktop drive offerings with the
introduction of Barracuda 7200.9," said Dave Reinsel, director of
storage research at IDC. "Seagate's newest family of drives will help
enable some of the latest high-end desktop PCs and low-cost servers on
the market today."
Barracuda 7200.9 Delivers Leading Disc Drive Capabilities for System Builders
Seagate's Barracuda 7200.9 3Gbit/second SATA disc drive family delivers
the high capacity, performance and reliability and great value that
system builders need for single-user systems such as media, gaming,
high-end workstations and consumer PCs. Barracuda 7200.9 also meets the
high throughput and low cost-per-gigabyte requirements of builders of
multi-user systems such as low-cost and SATA servers for small offices.
To simplify integration, Barracuda 7200.9 automatically configures the
drive to either new 3Gbit/second or legacy 1.5Gbit/second SATA systems.
Barracuda 7200.9 delivers the industry's highest data density, storing
up to 160GB on a single disc. Seagate's leading areal density results
in fewer discs and heads and ensures the fastest performance and
greatest reliability of any PC hard drive in its class.
Seagate's 3Gbit/second SATA interface with NCQ supports Intel
Hyper-Threading to increase the performance of SATA servers and
workstations supporting intensive applications such as financial,
engineering or digital media manipulation. NCQ also increases
reliability in heavy workloads by significantly reducing the drive's
mechanical wear.
Seagate NCQ provides a number of advanced capabilities such as command
reordering, first-party DMA, interrupt aggregation and race-free status
return for multi-user system builders needing enhanced system-level
performance for applications with transactional workloads. With
Barracuda 7200.9, Seagate is the only hard drive maker to offer
3Gbit/second SATA with NCQ across all capacities, from 80GB to half
terabyte.
Barracuda 7200.9 drives also improve system data and hardware
reliability through enhanced CRC data protection, the latest latching
cables and snap-in connectors, and thin cables for improved cooling.
All the drives are backed by Seagate's industry-leading 5-year
warranty.
At 3Gbit/second, the Barracuda 7200.9 internal disc drives double the
throughput of first-generation SATA drives. The world's only
ninth-generation family of 7200-RPM disc drives for desktop PCs also
delivers up to 16 Mbytes of cache for high performance and the quietest
operation in a PC hard drive.
All Barracuda 7200.9 SATA drives adhere to the latest Serial ATA 2.5
specification. Serial ATA 2.5 integrates Serial ATA 1.0, all the
optional advanced specifications and years of errata into a single
document.
News Source: Seagate Press Release
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