Seagate Announces New Barracuda 7200.9 Hard Drives

Seagate Technology announced the availability of its Barracuda 7200.9 family of internal hard drives to the worldwide distribution channel. Targeted at low-cost and Serial ATA (SATA) servers, mainstream and high-performance PCs, PC gaming systems and media PCs, the new Barracuda 7200.9 family combines up to a half-terabyte capacity with 3Gbit/second Serial ATA throughput and storage technologies such as Native Command Queuing (NCQ).

Barracuda 7200.9 delivers high data density, storing up to 160GB on a single disc. Seagate's 3Gbit/second SATA interface with NCQ supports Intel Hyper-Threading and provides a number of advanced capabilities such as command reordering, first-party DMA, interrupt aggregation and race-free status return. Barracuda 7200.9 drives also offers enhanced CRC data protection, the latest latching cables and snap-in connectors, and thin cables for improved cooling. All the drives are backed by Seagate's industry-leading 5-year warranty.

All Barracuda 7200.9 SATA drives adhere to the latest Serial ATA 2.5 specification.

Source: Seagate Technology

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