Seagate Announces Density Achievement with 250GB Platter

Seagate's drives are dense: 180 Gb per square inch

Seagate sent out a press release announcing that it has begun worldwide volume shipments of the industry's highest areal density desktop hard drive. At 250GB-per-disc, 3.5-inch disc relies on Seagate’s second-generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology to achieve its high density.

Packing a data density of 180 Gbits per square inch, Seagate says its one-disc Barracuda hard drive sets new benchmarks for power consumption, acoustics and performance for its desktop PC hard drives product line. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drive is built with an SATA 3Gb/s interface and will serve as the foundation for Seagate's 1-terabyte desktop, enterprise, consumer electronics and external hard drives.

"Seagate remains focused on leading the hard drive's pivotal transition to perpendicular recording technology and maintaining our areal density leadership in order to meet our customers' growing storage capacity and reliability needs," said Brian Dexheimer, chief sales and marketing officer for Seagate. "This product's leading areal density epitomizes our efforts to deliver technologies that are unmatched in allowing organizations and consumers to store, protect and share digital content."

Reference:Marcus Yam,dailytech