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Seagate ships desktop hard drive with world's highest areal density

  • United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, January 06 - 2009 at 11:55
  • PRESS RELEASE

Seagate today announced first-to-market volume shipments of a mainstream desktop hard drive with the industry's highest areal density.

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Packing 1TB of capacity on just two disks, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive features an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch to deliver the best combination of capacity, performance and reliability for PCs, desktop RAID and personal external storage.

"Demand for more desktop PC storage capacity is far from letting up as computer users worldwide generate massive amounts of digital content every day,"


said Tom Major, Seagate vice president , Personal Compute Business.

"Seagate is leading the industry with new storage solutions designed to store, share and manage all of that business- and user-generated content." he added.

The Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive provides a stellar combination of storage capacity and speed required for today's most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive's Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 160MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 750GB and 500GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.
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About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions.

Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage.

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Tarek El-Moukachar
Asda'a Burson-Marsteller
Tel: 971 4 3344550
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