Seagate Announces 1.5 TB Desktop Drive

By Geoff Duncan
July 11, 2008

Find today's hard drive capacities too limiting? Seagate has just announced its first 1.5 terabyte desktop hard drive.

Storage manufacturer Seagate has just announced its new Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive, boasting a whopping 1.5 terabytes of storage capacity. Seagate's previous drives topped out at 1 TB; according to the company, the 1.5 TB unit marks the single largest jump in capacity in the more than half a century that hard drives have been around, thanks to perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.

"Organizations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share, and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new applications, and demand for desktop and notebook computers with unprecedented storage capacity, performance, and reliability," said Seagate executive VP Michael Wingert, in a statement. "Seagate is committed to powering the next generation of computing today with the planet's fastest, highest-capacity, and ...

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