Done. Seagate ships 2TB SATA 3.0 hard drive, Barracuda XT - TechSpot N. Seagate has refreshed its Barracuda line of hard disk drives with the Barracuda XT -- the world's first to market that supports SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s).
The new interface spec doubles the theoretical bandwidth of SATA 2 (3Gb/s) -- which is what most drives are using today. The Barracuda XT houses four platters totaling 2TB of storage space, has a 7200RPM spin rate, a sustained data rate of 138MB/s, and is equipped with 64MB of cache. Seagate claims the XT is the fastest among 7200RPM hard drives, and with its plentiful cache it is able to provide "screaming burst rate speeds" to video editing applications and certain PC games.
Obviously, Seagate is targeting the enthusiast crowd with the Barracuda XT, which ships with a 5-year warranty and has an MSRP of $299. Seagate Announces First SSD, 2TB HDD. Seagate Launching 600GB Server Drives With 2M Hour MTBF. Seagate's Savvio 10k.4 Customers clamoring for capacity Solid state drives might be all the rage right now, but traditional magnetic-based storage still rules the roost.
Many corporations are moving to a tiered storage approach utilizing SSDs, but they still require massive capacities at a relatively economical price. Most server farms have moved to the 2.5-inch hard disk drive format in order to increase storage density and decrease power consumption. These smaller drives have less capacity, but you can fit many more of them into a blade server.