Seagate today unveiled the world’s first hard drive that breaks the 1TB capacity barrier. The new Barracuda 7200.11 a 3.5” hard drive has 1.5TB of storage space. The hard drive has four platters and each platter has 375GB storage capacity. The increase in data density on each platter improves the speed and results in disk transfer data speeds of 120MB per second or more. The Barracuda 7200.11 lineup will have drives ranging is size from 160GB to 1.5TB. All the drive will feature 32MB cache and will be released in August.
Seagate also showed two notebook drives. The Momentus 7200.4 is the first 2.5” hard drive that has 500GB storage and spins at 7,200 RPM. The drive has 16MB of cache to cut down on unnecessary drive access. The second notebook drive Momentus 5400.6 is also a 500GB hard drive with 5,400 RPM and 8MB of cache. Both the drives will be released in fall 2008.