Seagate ships its Barracuda 7200.12 HD mainstream desktop hard drive, boasting industry’s highest areal density.
The 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive claims to hold up to 1TB of capacity on just two disks, i.e. 500 GB per disk of storage.
It shows off its areal density of 329 Gigabits per-square-inch that ensures superior capacity, performance and reliability for PCs, desktop RAID and personal external storage.
“Demand for more desktop PC storage capacity is far from letting up as computer users worldwide generate massive amounts of digital content every day,” noted Tom Major, Seagate vice president, Personal Compute Business.
Furthermore, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive promises to offer a stellar combination of storage capacity and speed that desktop PCs demand. The Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface in the drive claims to provide an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 160MB/second that helps to deliver fast boot, application startup and file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second.
The 3.5-inch Barracuda 7200.12 HD also comes in 750GB and 500GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB. Nothing is known about the price as of now.
