Seagate unveils one TB hard drives

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Seagate has launched one terabyte (TB) hard drives that deliver combination of capacity, performance and reliability for a wide range of enterprise and desktop PC applications.

"The need for high-capacity storage in enterprise networks and home entertainment centers is almost insatiable," said John Monroe, a research vice president at Gartner.

"Historians may consider the shipment of one TB drives as a watershed event for the industry but users will consider such devices commonplace. We believe one TB (and larger) drives will become 'standard equipment' in, on or near virtually every television set in the world as well as in a variety of multi-user environments."

As the industry's only second-generation desktop and enterprise perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard drives, the Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 deliver one TB of capacity, 7,200-rpm spin speeds, average seek times of 8.5ms, caches up to 32MB and Seagate's industry-leading five-year limited warranty.

Seagate's newest hard drives pack one TB of data on just four discs to provide cool operating temperatures and low power consumption, which help extend drive life, Seagate said in a release on Wednesday.