Seagate ships world's fastest desktop HD

Seagate Technology began global shipments of mainstream desktop hard drive,
Barracuda XT, a 7200RPM product featuring 2TB of storage capacity and Serial ATA
(SATA) 6Gbps interface. The 3.5-inch desktop drive that features a SATA 6Gbps
interface, meets the capacity demands of gaming, digital video-environments and
other­desktop 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 VP-Sales and Marketing, Seagate. “Seagate is meeting these
requirements with the first 7200RPM desktop hard drive to combine 2TB of storage
capacity with the fastest SATA interface to date,” he said.

“Marvell is pleased to announce the industry's first commercially available
SATA 6Gbps solution and working with Seagate to introduce this technology,” said
Alan J Armstrong, VP-Marketing, Business Storage Group, Marvell. He further
added, “Marvell has been working with a broad group of partners and customers to
bring this solution to market. As early adopters of Marvell's SATA 6Gbps
technology, both Asus and Gigabyte offer mother­boards to complement SATA 6Gbps
hard drives.”