Seagate cranks up its Barracuda hard drives

STORAGE VENDOR Seagate has announced a simplified line of its Barracuda hard drives.

The updated Barrucuda range of hard drives will offer between 250GB and 3TB capacity. This is up to 1TB per platter, the highest density currently available, and Seagate has set the spin speed to 7200rpm for all drives.

Scott Horn, VP of marketing at Seagate said, "The new Barracuda 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."

Seagate has also said it plans to discontinue its Barracuda Green Drive in February next year. This is because the upcoming drives have almost the same power consumption but higher performance.

Seagate will relaunch the Barracuda XT, its fastest desktop drive, as a solid state hybrid within the Barracuda line. SATA 6Gbits/s is the standard interface used and the hard drives will have up to 64MB of cache. µ