Seagate breaks
Areal Density barrier with world's first hard
drive featuring 1TB per platter
Hyderabad|India|May '2011:Seagate (NASDAQ:STX),
the leader in hard drives and storage solutions,
has unveiled the world’s first 3.5-inch hard drive
featuring 1TB of storage capacity per disk
platter, breaking the 1TB areal density barrier to
help meet explosive worldwide demand for digital
content storage in both the home and the office.
Seagate’s GoFlex® Desk products are the first to
feature the new hard drive, delivering storage
capacities of up to 3TB and an areal density of
625 Gigabits per square inch, the industry’s
highest. Seagate is on track to ship its flagship
3.5-inch Barracuda desktop hard drive with 3TBs of
storage on 3 disk platters – enough capacity to
store up to 120 high-definition movies, 1,500
video games, thousands of photos or virtually
countless hours of digital music – to the
distribution channel in mid-2011. The drive will
also be available in capacities of 2TB, 1.5TB and
1TB
“Organizations of all sizes and consumers
worldwide are amassing digital content at light
speed, generating immense demand for storage of
digital content of every imaginable kind,” said
Rocky Pimentel, Seagate Executive Vice President
of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. “We remain
keenly focused on delivering the storage capacity,
speed and manageability our customers need to
thrive in an increasingly digital world.”
GoFlex Desk external drives are compatible with
both the Windows® operating system and Mac®
computers. Each drive includes an NTFS driver for
Mac, which allows the drive to store and access
files from both Windows and Mac OS X computers
without reformatting. The GoFlex Desk external
drive’s sleek black 3.5-inch design sits either
vertically or horizontally to accommodate any
desktop environment.
May.2011
