Seagate is smiling big today, having announced that it is the first ever to offer a hard drive containing 1TB platters. There are a total of four platters, making the drive an ordinary 4TB in size, but it is not the overall capacity that is the bragging point. Although it’s not the most exciting announcement, there are some advantages to this drive over other 4TB offerings.
This 4TB drive offers a data transfer rate of 145MB/s, and utilizes about 35-less electricity over other 4TB drives because of the reduced number of platters. This also results in an increase in drive performance. The drive is being offered both with and without an external case: without will run you approximately $190USD, while with the case will bump the price to $212 USD.
This isn’t Seagate’s only claim to fame this year, with the company announcing last month that it is the first (and thus far, only) to ship 2 billion hard drives globally. Of those 2 billion drives, the first billion took about 30 years to sell, while the second billion took approximately 4 years to sell, a massive swing that shows the vastly increasing demand for storage.
Demand for hard drives – particularly, larger ones – is expected to rise as the quantity of digital content, such as high-definition videos, created by consumers increases. As such, even those who have invested in an external hard drive will likely find themselves buying a new one in the coming year or two as capacity and needs both increase. For now, 1TB platters are a step towards meeting that demand.
[via Tech Crunch]
Seagate unveils world’s first 1TB-per-platter hard drive is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In our culture and society these days, it seems that there is a growing obsession with being first. First in class, first on the grid, first in line to get the new iPhone…the list is practically endless when you think about it. Well, Seagate, a company that is well known in churning out storage solutions and manufactures hard drives as their bread and butter, has achieved another industry’s first with their new 4TB hard drive. This 4TB hard drive might not seem like much at first, but the fact that it makes use of a quartet of 1TB platters makes it special.
We did read about how Seagate has decided to cease manufacturing the 2.5” 7,200rpm hard drive for the notebook market yesterday, and whenever there is a “funeral” of sorts, here is an event which will celebrate the “birth”, so to speak, of the third generation hybrid drive from Seagate that is simply known as the SSHD. The SSHD was showcased at CES 2013 which happened a couple of months ago, and you are now able to pick it up for the notebook and desktop segments.
Seagate, a name that is synonymous with hard drives is about to raise the white flag when it comes to manufacturing 7200rpm hard drives for notebooks. Yes sir, this is true, Seagate will no longer continue to produce 2.5-inch drives for notebooks, which means you will soon be unable to hear the sweet, sweet whirring and clicking of 7200 revolutions per minute within the belly of your notebook’s chassis. Surprising? Not really, considering how 7200rpm hard drives, being faster compared to the 5400rpm drives which are crammed into more budget oriented notebooks these days, do not have a market to cater to any more as premium notebooks lean towards SSDs or SSD/HDD hybrids.
