Seagate Builds 750GB Drive with Perpendicular Recording Technology

By DE Editors

Seagate Technology(Scotts Valley, CA) has introduced a new 750GB capacity desktop harddrive. The hard drive as part of the new Barracuda 7200.10 family builton perpendicular recording technology.

With the introduction of the Barracuda 7200.10 family, Seagate nowoffers perpendicular recording technology across its desktop, notebook,enterprise, consumer electronics, and retail hard drives. Thetechnology arranges data bits vertically on the disk media rather thanhorizontally as is the traditional orientation. A press release fromSeagate says the new arrangement increases drive throughput withoutincreasing spin speed by allowing more data bits to pass under thedrive head in the same amount of time.

The Barracuda 7200.10 family provides 200GB to 750GB of capacity at adensity of 130 Gigabits per square inch (up to 188 Gigabytes per disk).Barracuda 7200.10 also features cache sizes from 8MB to 16MB and1.5Gbps and 3.0Gbps Serial ATA (SATA) data transfer rates with NativeCommand Queuing. NCQ is said to enhance reliability in heavy workloads byreducing head movement and streamlining the delivery of queued commandsto the drive.

More capabilities include Adaptive Fly Height, which maximizes theconsistency of read/write performance across the entire disk byadjusting the fly height (distance between the disk head and platter)according to changes in environmental operating conditions; and CleanSweep, which helps maintain media integrity and drive reliability bypassing the drive head over the entire platter during power-on tosmooth out any irregularities in the disk surface.

Seagate says the 7200-rpm Barracuda 7200.10family is designed for system builders who require a combination ofhard drive capacity, performance, and reliability for single-usersystems such as desktop PC RAID, digital editing, hot-rod gaming,single-drive external storage, and consumer PCs. The drives alsoprovide the high throughput and low cost-per-gigabyte storage requiredfor multi-user systems such as low-cost servers for small offices. Formore information, visit seagate.com.

Sources: Press materials received from the company.