Seagate Ships World’s First 4TB HD With Four 1TB Platters
Seagate will be shipping a 4TB hard drive that has the
distinction of being the world’s first to include a 1TB per platter design.
This basically means that each spinning disk in the hard drive has a capacity
of 1TB, and that there are four of them.
It’s not everyday that you can
claim to that have something that’s the “world’s first”, so don’t be too hard
on Seagate.
The Desktop HDD is also the first
desktop internal drive from Seagate that uses the new streamlined naming
convention. Seagate's consumer-grade hard drives were formerly called
Barracuda. Earlier this year, the company also shipped the first hybrid drive of
the same naming scheme, the
The new Desktop HDD comes with 64MB
of cache memory and supports the latest SATA 3 (6Gbps) standard. It also works
with previous versions of SATA, including SATA 2 (3Gbps) and SATA (1.5Gbps).
Unlike the previous Barracuda drives that spun at 7,200rpm, the new Desktop HDD
spins at only 5,900rpm and consumes about 35 percent less energy. Seagate says
that the drive will still offer fast performance with the sustained writing
speed of about 145MBps.
According to Seagate, the new drive
is designed for both desktop computers and external storage solutions, such as
NAS servers or external hard drives. Generally, hard drives of 2TB or larger
require a modern operating system (Windows 7 or later) and UEFI BIOS to work,
but the Desktop HDD comes with DiskWizard software that allows it to work with
Windows XP. To use it as a boot drive, however, UEFI BIOS is needed.
To put things in perspective, 4TB
is equivalent to about 500 hours of HD video, 1 million MP3 songs, or 800,000
digital photos. The 4TB Desktop HDD is about 800,000 times larger in capacity
than the first desktop hard drive Seagate introduced back in 1979, but the
physical size has remained about the same.
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But most importantly, the new
design will also bring down costs. A hard drive in an external casing can be
had for $212, while just the bare drive will cost around $190.
Bring on the terabytes, Seagate. My
body and my illegally downloaded movies are ready.
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