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WHILE IT PROBABLY won't be until the second half of next year until Serial ATA drives really take off, Seagate today said it will offer two models – the Barracuda 7200.7 and the 7200.7 Plus for the new interface.
The firm said that it will also offer the drives with the Parallel ATA interface too.
The drives now include storage capacity of up to 160GB to the Barracuda line. The Plus model has an onboard cache of 8MB and storage capacity at 160GB and 120GB, while the 7200.7 has 2MB of cache and comes in 160GB, 120GB, 80GB and 40GB flavours.
Seagate claims that proprietary "Softsonic" fluid dynamic bearing motors mean the Barracuda drives are the quietest PC drives available.
The firm claimed its S-ATA technology avoids using translator bridges and that will improve performance. It also announced a 5400.1 hard drive aimed at system integrators, and which comes at 40GB capacities and 5400 RPMs. This model is 25 per cent thinner than regular PC drives, the firm said – that will improve airflow enough for it to be used in fanless PCs, game consoles and printers.
The firm said that it will also offer the drives with the Parallel ATA interface too.
The drives now include storage capacity of up to 160GB to the Barracuda line. The Plus model has an onboard cache of 8MB and storage capacity at 160GB and 120GB, while the 7200.7 has 2MB of cache and comes in 160GB, 120GB, 80GB and 40GB flavours.
Seagate claims that proprietary "Softsonic" fluid dynamic bearing motors mean the Barracuda drives are the quietest PC drives available.
The firm claimed its S-ATA technology avoids using translator bridges and that will improve performance. It also announced a 5400.1 hard drive aimed at system integrators, and which comes at 40GB capacities and 5400 RPMs. This model is 25 per cent thinner than regular PC drives, the firm said – that will improve airflow enough for it to be used in fanless PCs, game consoles and printers.
