Seagate intros new Barracuda drives

Seagate Technology recently announced the availability of its Barracuda
7200.9 family of internal hard drives to the worldwide distribution channel.
Targeted at low-cost and serial ATA (SATA) servers, mainstream and
high-performance PCs, PC gaming systems and media PCs, the new Barracuda 7200.9
family combines up to a massive half-terabyte capacity with fast 3Gbit/second
serial ATA throughput and leading-edge storage technologies such as Native
Command Queuing (NCQ) to deliver the industry's highest levels of performance
and reliability.

Barracuda 7200.9 delivers the industry's highest data density, storing up
to 160GB on a single disc. Seagate's leading areal density results in fewer
discs and heads and ensures the fastest performance and greatest reliability of
any PC hard drive in its class.

Seagate's 3Gbit/second SATA interface with NCQ supports Intel
Hyper-Threading to increase the performance of SATA servers and workstations
supporting intensive applications such as financial, engineering or digital
media manipulation. NCQ also increases reliability in heavy workloads by
significantly reducing the drive's mechanical wear.

Seagate NCQ provides a number of advanced capabilities such as command
reordering, first-party DMA, interrupt aggregation and race-free status return
for multi-user system builders needing enhanced system-level performance for
applications with transactional workloads. With Barracuda 7200.9, Seagate is the
only hard drive maker to offer 3Gbit/second SATA with NCQ across all capacities,
from 80GB to half terabyte.

DQW News Bureau

New Delhi