Seagate Ships Desktop Hard Drive 'Barracuda XT'

Seagate Technology has begun global shipments of its large-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive – Barracuda XT, a 7200RPM product featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface. The 3.5-inch desktop drive has been designed to meet the capacity demands of gaming, digital video-environments and other storage-hungry desktop computing applications.

“Capacity and performance remain the defining attributes of hard drives for PC gamers, digital multimedia content developers and many other customers requiring high-end systems at home and in the office,” said Dave Mosley, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing at Seagate. “Seagate is meeting these requirements with the first 7200RPM desktop hard drive to combine 2TB of storage capacity with a Serial ATA interface.”

The Barracuda XT product, a four-platter drive featuring an areal density of 368 Gigabits per square inch, delivers high performance – burst speeds of up to 6 Gigabits per second – for all PC applications, maintains backward compatibility with the SATA 3Gb/second and SATA 1.5Gb/second interfaces, and uses the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration. The hard drive’s SATA 6Gb/s interface enables system builders using SATA 6Gb/s drive controllers to build high-performance desktop PCs, full-tilt gaming rigs, and home and small business servers, and its 64MB cache optimises burst performance and data transfer speeds.