\'Monster\' 750GB drive

Seagate today announced the introduction of the world's first desktop hard drive to hit the 750GB capacity mark. The new "monster drive" is part of the new Barracuda 7200.10 family built on perpendicular recording technology designed for desktop computers and low-end servers. "Seagate now delivers perpendicular recording technology across its desktop, notebook, enterprise, consumer electronics and retail hard drives. The technology stands data bits vertically onto the disc media, rather than horizontal to the surface as with traditional longitudinal recording, to deliver new levels of hard drive data density, capacity and reliability. The new data orientation also increases drive throughput without increasing spin speed by allowing more data bits to pass under the drive head in the same amount of time." Now shipping, the $560 drive features a 7200-rpm mechanism in a 3.5" low-profile form-factor and a 5-year warranty.

by MacNN Staff