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Seagate ships the world's fastest largest hard drive

P55 motherboard friendly to boot.

Seagate has just started shipping the Barracuda XT, the first 3.5-inch 7200RPM two Terabyte desktop hard disk drive that has a 6Gbps SATA interface for all your faster than SATA-II needs.

The HDD announcement was timed to coincide with the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, primarily due to the fact that the SATA 6Gbps interface can be found on some of Intel's latest P55 motherboards unveiled a few weeks back.

This marks the second two TB Seagate drive, with the low power drawing 5900RPM Barracuda LP having been announced in April. Western Digital beat Seagate to the punch in the high end capacity stakes with its first two TB drive back in January.

The Barracuda XT is backward compatible with the SATA 3Gbps and SATA 1.5Gbps standards, to accommodate those who need more disk space but might not want to fully upgrade their systems yet.

Seagate is expecting its latest Barracuda drive to be used in high performance, high-end gaming rigs first and then also small business servers.

We had no UK specific prices at press time, but as a point of reference the Barracuda XT is selling for $299 in the US.

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4 Comments

Trekker Sep 22, 2009 8:36 PM	is intels ssd gen 2 faster?
thesorehead Sep 23, 2009 9:21 AM	What are average transfer rates for a 7200rpm HDD? ~100 MB/s? Less? You'd need to triple that (maybe error-checking or something?) to even saturate a 3Gbps connection.
zerassar Sep 23, 2009 10:19 AM	Many magnetic disk drives go beyond 100MB/s.... Don't think I have seen one beyond 200. I rkn that by fastest they are refering to the potential throughput of the SATAII interface rather than the actual data transfer possible from the disk itself... Correct me if I am wrong but as far as I know SSD is always faster at random read/write and very similar sequential read/write to HDD
nem Oct 6, 2009 7:33 PM	They should focus their attention on next gen storage, disc drives are getting old and these speeds are still slow in comparison to other pc parts.

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