{"id":16796,"date":"2011-11-02T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T06:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=16796"},"modified":"2011-11-02T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T06:29:05","slug":"seagate-streamlines-barracuda-product-family-simplifies-selection-for-consumers-and-reduces-costs-for-computer-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=16796","title":{"rendered":"Seagate Streamlines Barracuda Product Family; Simplifies Selection For Consumers and Reduces Costs for Computer Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney<\/strong>\u2014 November 2, 2011\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) is streamlining its flagship family of desktop drives under a single product that hones in on performance and big capacities to help satisfy the explosive growth in content creation and consumption by businesses and consumers worldwide. The new Barracuda\u00ae family makes it easier for consumers to find the product they need and reduces costs for Seagate\u2019s original equipment manufacturer and distribution channel customers by reducing the number of product qualifications and amount of inventory they need to manage.
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\n\u201cA simpler desktop drive product family is exactly what Seagate customers are asking for,\u201d said Scott Horn, vice president of Marketing at Seagate. \u201cThe new Barracuda\u00ae family reflects the reality that end-users want a full range of hard drive capacities and as much performance as we can give them to help manage and store massive amounts of digital content. In addition, our OEM and channel customers want to reduce overhead costs by having fewer product lines to qualify and manage in their inventory.\u201d
\nDesktop PC performance is growing in importance as computer users consume and otherwise use more and more multimedia \u2013 a blend of text, audio, images, animation and video \u2013 and other rich-content files in areas as diverse as business, advertising, art, education, entertainment, engineering, medicine, mathematics and science. Higher hard drive performance often means a faster computer and quicker access to this content.<\/p>\n

The new Barracuda hard drive \u2013 to be available first at online retailers Amazon, CDW, Newegg and TigerDirect \u2013 is designed for desktop, tower or all-in-one personal computers; workstations, home and small business servers; network-attached storage devices; direct-attached storage expansion; and home and small-business RAID solutions. Capacities of the family range from 250GB to a massive 3TB.<\/p>\n

The simplification of the Barracuda family comes as Seagate begins volume shipments of its 1TB-per-disk Barracuda\u00ae hard drive. Seagate plans to end production of its Barracuda\u00ae Green drive in February 2012. Seagate analysis shows that its new Barracuda drives have a nearly identical power-consumption profile as energy-efficient desktop drives but deliver much higher performance. Barracuda\u00ae XT, Seagate\u2019s fastest desktop hard drive, will be folded into the new Barracuda family and re-emerge, in name, as the company\u2019s desktop solid state hybrid drive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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\nTechnical Specifications<\/span>
\nThe new Barracuda hard drive features a SATA 6GB\/second interface, 7200RPM spin speed and up to 64MB cache to deliver high performance across all capacities. Seagate\u2019s SmartAlign\u2122 technology, a feature of Seagate\u2019s Barracuda Green drives, will continue to ship with the flagship Barracuda drives to help the hard drive industry segue from the current 512-byte sector standard for hard drives to the new 4096-byte sector size. The new 4K standard enables the use of stronger error correction algorithms to maintain data integrity at higher storage densities and capacities.
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\nEnvironmental Commitment <\/span>
\nSeagate is committed to building hard drives to the highest quality and environmental standards. More than 70 percent of materials used in its storage products are recyclable, and all of its products are halogen-free and comply with the rigorous REACH standard*. These and other initiatives<\/a>\u00a0at Seagate are what truly make a difference to the environment.
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\n*REACH is the most far-reaching and comprehensive chemical-restriction law in the world. Seagate drives do not contain the harmful halogen elements chlorine and bromine. The absence of halogen exceeds the strictest legal requirements for environmental cleanliness to satisfy the higher standards of many computer makers and environmental groups. \u00a0
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\nAbout Seagate<\/strong>
\nSeagate is the worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions. Learn more at http:\/\/www.seagate.com<\/a>.
\nCopyright 2011. Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in USA. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and\/or other countries. Barracuda, Barracuda Green, Barracuda XT and SmartAlign are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and\/or other countries. When referring to drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer\u2019s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Actual data rates may vary depending on operating environment and other factors. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sydney\u2014 November 2, 2011\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) is streamlining its flagship family of desktop drives under a single product that hones in on performance and big capacities to help satisfy the explosive growth in content creation and consumption by businesses and consumers worldwide. The new Barracuda\u00ae family makes it easier for consumers to find the product<\/p>\n

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