Seagate launches hard drive with Serial ATA 6 GB/second technology

Bangalore: Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) has unveiled a 2TB desktop hard drive Barracuda XT, which it claims is the world's fastest as it uses Serial ATA (SATA) 6GB/second interface. "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 Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Seagate. "Seagate is meeting these requirements with the first 7200RPM desktop hard drive to combine 2TB of storage capacity with the fastest Serial ATA interface to date." The Barracuda XT product is 3.5-inch desktop drive which has four-platter drive and it delivers speeds up to 6GB/sec for all PC applications and maintains backward compatibility with the SATA 3GB/sec and SATA 1.5GB/sec interfaces. Barracuda uses the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration. "Marvell is pleased to be announcing the industry's first commercially available SATA 6GB/sec solution and working with Seagate to introduce this technology. As early adopters of Marvell's SATA 6GB/sec technology, both ASUS and Gigabyte offer motherboards to complement SATA 6GB/sec hard drives." said Dr. Alan J Armstrong, Vice President of Marketing, Business Storage Group at Marvell, Seagate has partnered with companies like Marvell and Gigabyte to develop the product. With Barracuda XT drives and SATA 6GB/sec motherboards from ASUS and Gigabyte, computer makers can build the high performance PCs, workstations and entry-level servers. Tony Liao, Associate Vice President of Marketing at Gigabyte said, "As the leader in motherboard innovation, Gigabyte is always excited to bring the very latest technologies to market, and with the release of the world's first SATA 6GB/sec hard drive from Seagate, our customers' expectations will be blown away with double-the-bandwidth performance for lightning-fast data transfer and storage."