Seagate Releases One Terabyte Hard Drives

Seagate has announced 1 terabyte (TB) hard drives that claim to deliver a combination of capacity, performance and reliability for a wide range of enterprise and desktop PC applications.

The Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 deliver 1TB of capacity, 7,200-rpm spin speeds, and average seek times of 8.5ms.

The Barracuda ES.2 is a newly designed product for business-critical and nearline enterprise storage environments including: networked and tiered storage solutions, reference/compliance storage, disc-to-disc backup and restore, archiving solutions, rich media content storage and collaboration.

The Barracuda ES.2 features RVFF (Rotational Vibration Feed Forward) system, designed to sustain performance in densely-packed multi-drive systems. It also provides customers with a SAS interface option in addition to SATA.