Well, this story should make us really happy, but there are some important drawbacks which makes us ignore the importance of the latest hard-drive unveiled by Seagate. It’s the Barracuda 7200.11 with 1.5TB of storage on a single drive which makes Seagate very proud as this is the “the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology”.
Why I don’t like it for the moment? Because it will be out in August and there is no word on pricing therefore we can expect this HDD to cost way too much. Also, we can expect a big company to buy the first series of hard-drives for their servers and probably we will get our 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 as of next year.
Seagate also released information about two drives - Momentus 2.5-inch 500GB for notebooks which “are the fourth generation of Seagate’s laptop family to use PMR”. These drives will be released in 5400 and 7200RPMs and they will be available in Q4 this year.
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