Seagate Increases PC Hard Drive Capacities to 400 GB
June 15, 2004
Scotts Valley, CA - Seagate Technology has greatly expanded its line of personal computing hard drives, unveiling new 400 GB internal and external hard drives, a new portable external hard drive with up to 100GB capacity, and what it calls the world's first pocket external hard drive.
The new Barracuda 7200.8 disc drive offers high areal density with 400GB on a three-disc platform, a new cache size up to 16 Mbytes, a choice of an Ultra ATA interface or the industry's first native Serial ATA (SATA) interface with native command queuing (NCQ), and remains the quietest PC hard drive on the market, the manufacturer desribes.
Seagate will also offer the new 400GB capacity in its award-winning desktop Seagate External Hard Drive, which is perfect for using less desktop space and travels well with notebook PCs while still offering a 100GB capacity. The new Seagate USB2 Pocket Hard Drive is the first tiny USB-compatible 5GB drive consumers can pop in their pocket or backpack to carry data wherever they go, thanks to its tough-but-cute hard case.
Barracuda 7200.8
Barracuda 7200.8 disc drives (pictured) provide up to 400GB and fast performance with new cache sizes up to 16-Mbytes, a 7,200-rpm spin speed, and an 8.0-msec average seek time. It offers the industry's first Native SATA interface with NCQ and support for the latest PC technology, including Intel Hyper-Threading. Barracuda 7200.8 enables fast data-transfer rates for hot-rod PC gaming systems and mainstream PCs, PC-based home media servers and entry-level SATA servers. With Seagate's patented SoftSonic fluid dynamic bearing motors, Barracuda 7200.8 is extremely quiet, emitting as little as 2.0 bels at idle in the 120GB version.
Seagate USB2 Pocket Hard Drive
The Seagate USB2 Pocket Hard Drive is the world's first external hard drive small enough for consumers to fit in their pockets or throw in a backpack. Safely encased in its sleek round shell, its robust design and high shock tolerance enables mobility and makes it as convenient as a USB thumb drive, while offering an incredible 2.5GB or 5GB of storage for transporting or temporarily backing up a huge amount of data.
Seagate Portable External Hard Drive
Designed with a smaller hard drive inside (2.5-inch) to offer up to 100GB of portable storage in a sleek and very small footprint for your desk, the Seagate Portable External Hard Drive is the smallest desktop external hard drive offered by any of the leading hard disc drive suppliers. This high-capacity, USB bus-powered portable external drive offers low power consumption, high shock tolerance and a compact footprint - it's the ultimate solution for consumers and business travelers who want to take their digital content with them.
Seagate External Hard Drive
Seagate will also offer its popular Seagate External Hard Drive with a new 400GB capacity. With Seagate's unique interlocking design, users can stack multiple Seagate External Hard Drives horizontally, or place the drive vertically for the smallest footprint on the market. A sturdy, upright stand and non-slip rubber feet on two sides ensure the drive can be arranged in many convenient ways and won't slide around or slip off a desk. And users can plug and unplug the drive without turning off the computer.
The Seagate External Hard Drive runs cooler than other high-capacity external drives, because its designed to dissipate heat in any configuration - vertical or stacked. Plus, lifetime tech support means that users can call for friendly technical advice for the entire long life of the drive.
The Seagate USB2 Pocket Hard Drive and the Seagate Portable External Hard Drive are expected to be on store shelves in time for school this Fall 2004. The new 400GB Seagate External Hard Drive will be on store shelves for the holiday shopping season, and the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 disc drive will begin shipping in Fall 2004.
For more information, visit
www.seagate.com
# # #
For a listing of all the Industry News Stories...
Click Here |
