by Mathew Reuther on July 14, 2008
If you're looking for a large hard disk drive later this year you don't need to look much further than Seagate. The company has just announced the upcoming availability of the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB, the largest consumer 3.5-inch drive ever released. As if that were not enough the company is also increasing the size of the Momentus 5400(.6) and 7200(.4) series drives to a full half a terrabyte, making them the notebook drives with the most capacity to date. The Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB uses PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) to boost capacity and as it offers 150% the storage of the previous top-end 1TB capacity drive it represents the largest capacity increase in hard disk history. The Momentus 7200.4 and 5400.6 half terrabyte drives also utilize PMR. The 5400RPM drive has an 8MB cache while the faster 7200RPM version offers 16MB. Both come in auto-locking versions using Seagate's G-Force Protection to maintain data integrity even in rough conditions. Until another company manages to unveil drives with comparable space Seagate will hold the capacity crown.
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