Seagate ships world's fastest desktop HDD

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.”

With SATA 6Gbps solution, Barracuda XT drives and motherboards from Asus and
Gigabyte, computer makers can build the highest-perfor­mance PCs, workstations
and entry-level servers.

“At Asus, we are once again at the forefront of innovation by being the first
to launch a native SATA 6Gbps interface on a motherboard,” said Joe Hsieh,
Corporate VP and GM-Motherboard Business Unit and Desktop Business Unit, Asus.