Seagate, worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives, has announced the launch of their 1 Terabyte (1000 GB capacity hard drive) Barracuda ES.2 and Barracuda 7200.11 in the Indian market. It feature 7,200-rpm spin speeds, average seek times of 8.5ms, and caches up to 32MB. The new drives pack 1 TB of data on four disks to provide cool operating temperatures and low power consumption to help extend drive life.

The Barracuda ES.2 is intended to be optimized for demanding business-critical and nearline enterprise storage environments. It features RVFF (Rotational Vibration Feed Forward) system, designed to sustain performance in densely packed multi-drive systems. Barracuda ES.2 also features Seagate’s PowerTrim technology, which enables the hard drive to deliver a 20 per cent reduction in overall drive power consumption and a 55 per cent reduction in watts-per-gigabyte.

The Barracuda 7200.11 is a high-capacity, nearly noise-free desktop hard drive with a 105MB/s sustained transfer rate. It has a low power rating of 8 watts at idle. The drive also delivers industry-leading acoustics, as low as 2.7 Bels, Read the rest of this entry »

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