Seagate Announces 1 TB Drives For India

Seagate has announced availability of its 1 Terabyte (TB) hard drives in India in its Maxtor Onetouch4 and Barracuda families. These new HDDs are targeted at home users and Sohos. These drives include Maxtor One Touch4 Plus, OneTouch4 Mini, and OneTouch4; and Barracuda 7200.11 and ES.2.The entire Maxtor family incorporates Maxtor Safety Drill, a solution for disaster recovery, which is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and the Mac operating system. It features one-touch synchronization and password encryption.

The 1TB Barracuda hard drives are the second generation desktop and perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) hard drives that seek to deliver a combination of capacity, performance, and reliability for a wide range of PC applications. The Barracuda 7200.11 and ES.2 deliver 7,200 rpm spin speeds, average seek times of 8.5 milliseconds, and caches up to 32 MB. The drives pack 1 TB of data on four disks to provide cool operating temperatures and low power consumption.

The Barracuda ES.2 is a newly designed hard drive featuring the new RVFF (Rotational Vibration Feed Forward) system, designed to sustain performance in densely-packed multi-drive systems. The drive also incorporates the new PowerTrim technology, which manages drive power consumption at all levels of activity.The 1 TB Barracuda 7200.11 is the 11th generation in the Barracuda 7200 series. The drive offers a continuous transfer rate of 105 MBps, with a low power rating of 8 watts at idle.

The new Maxtor and Barracuda products will be available in mid-November through Supertron computers. The pricing for these products has not been revealed yet. However, the 1 TB Barracuda will be available for Rs. 16,000.