First 1.5 TB HD from Seagate
Techtree News Staff, Jul 11, 2008 1422 hrs IST
Seagate claims to have built the world's first 1.5 TB hard drive.
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Techtree News Staff, Jul 11, 2008 1422 hrs IST
Seagate claims to have built the world's first 1.5 TB hard drive.
Seagate has pipped the likes of Hitachi and Western Digital (WD) at the post to introduce what it claims is the world's first 1.5 terabyte (TB) hard drive.
According to Seagate, "The debut of the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB, 3.5-inches hard drive, the eleventh generation of Seagate's flagship drive for desktop PCs, marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives -- a half terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology."
The 7200.11 will start shipping this August, and supports 1.5TB on four platters, claiming a Serial ATA transfer rate of 3GB per second.
Along with the 7200.11, Seagate has also introduced two 2.5-inches half terabyte hard drives; the Momentus 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4. Meant for the mobile platform, these drives come with sensor technology to prevent drive damage in case the laptop is dropped. The technology works by detecting changes in acceleration equal to the force of gravity, and parks heads off the disc to prevent contact with the platter in a free fall of as little as 8-inches and within 3/10ths of a second.
oh, we were eagerly waiting for ur remarks
by pune, pune, on Jul 16, 2008 08:33 AM, Report abuse
But will the user get 1.5tb of storage on this drive, or will the user lose drive space, when the drive is formatted.? As on all hard drives?
by Steven Cudworth, Middlesbrough, U.K., on Jul 11, 2008 03:46 PM, Report abuse Reply
1.5tb doesn't mean that the user will get full 1.5tb of space to use it will be dependent on the no of partitions you make. each partition surely will equip some space.
by Omkarjere, pune, on Jul 12, 2008 07:15 PM, Report abuse
Enough with this already: 1500000000000 Bytes = 1397"GB" as calculated by windows, or 1397GiB... it does not happen because of formatting...it happens because of different ways to measure the same thing (ones by dividing the number by 2 repeatedly (which originated way back when computers were in the Victorian Age), the other is by dividing by 10 repeatedly (which is more easily understood))
by Ricardo, Gurabo, on Jul 11, 2008 04:31 PM, Report abuse Reply
this hd is best.
by Rajesh, patna, on Jul 11, 2008 04:04 PM, Report abuse Reply