Seagate unveils first 1TB-per-platter HD

Consumers and businesses that generate and consume large amounts of digital content stand to benefit from a new range of hard drives with capacities of up to three terabytes from Seagate. Seagate recently unveiled what it called the world’s first 3.5-inch hard drive featuring 1 TB of storage capacity per disk platter, breaking the 1-TB areal density barrier. The GoFlex hard drives will be the first to feature the new hard drive, delivering storage capacities of up to 3TB and an areal density of 625 Gigabits per square inch, the industry’s highest, Seagate said in a statement. GoFlex Desk external drives, which are compatible with both Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s Mac computers, will have a suggested retail price of P11,950 for the 3TB model. Each drive includes an NTFS driver for Mac, which allows the drive to store and access files from both Windows and Mac OS X computers without reformatting. The GoFlex Desk external drive’s sleek black 3.5-inch design sits either vertically or horizontally to accommodate any desktop environment. It added it is to ship its flagship 3.5-inch Barracuda desktop hard drive with 3 TB of storage on three disk platters by mid-2011. According to Seagate, the 3 TB can store up to 120 high-definition movies, 1,500 video games, thousands of photos or virtually countless hours of digital music. The drive will also be available in capacities of 2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB, it added. “Organizations of all sizes and consumers worldwide are amassing digital content at light speed, generating immense demand for storage of digital content of every imaginable kind," said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing. “We remain keenly focused on delivering the storage capacity, speed and manageability our customers need to thrive in an increasingly digital world," he added. — TJD, GMA News