Seagate Ships Density Desktop Drive

Seagate has begun worldwide volume shipments of it’s 250GB-per-disc, 3.5-inch disc drive on the strength of second-generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology.

The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drive, the 3.5-inch desktop drive, is built with a SATA 3Gb/s interface and will serve as the foundation for Seagate’s 1-terabyte desktop, enterprise, consumer electronics and external hard drives.

“Seagate remains focused on leading the hard drive’s pivotal transition to perpendicular recording technology and maintaining our areal density leadership in order to meet our customers’ growing storage capacity and reliability needs,” said Brian Dexheimer, chief sales and marketing officer for Seagate. “This product’s leading areal density epitomises our efforts to deliver technologies that are unmatched in allowing organisations and consumers to store, protect and share digital content.”