1.5TB hard disk from Seagate

1.5TB hard disk from Seagate

Seagate is launching a single drive with a capacity of 1.5 terabytes.



The new drive uses Seagate's new perpendicular magnetic recording technology and packs the 1.5TB into four platters. It offers a claimed data transfer rate of up to 120MB/second.

There are lesser-capacity variants of the Barracuda drive, ranging from 160GB to 1TB, with cache options of both 16 and 32MB.

The 1.5TB desktop drive will be available in August. The 3.5-inch drive is made up of four 375GB platters and has a 7,200-rpm rotational speed.