Shipping: Seagate's 400GB Barracuda Drive

[Suhit Gupta]

http://www.techweb.com/wire/hardware/53200125

"Seagate Technology said on Tuesday that it is shipping its 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 hard drive to retail outlets, resellers, and system builders. The drive, which stores up to 133GB on a single disk, features single-chip SATA interface technology with native command queuing (NCQ.) The firm said the Barracuda is targeted at high-performance gaming systems, workstations, and entry-level servers. Interfaces for the drive come in options of native SATA or Ultra ATA. The drive features a 7,200-rpm spin speed and an 8.0-msec average seek time."

From what Seagate is saying, it looks like the drive is targeted directly at everyone that reads DMT. A quick search showed the drive to be around $400 for the 8MB cache version, I am assuming the 16MB cache drive will be at least $50-100 more.

[Suhit Gupta]

http://www.techweb.com/wire/hardware/53200125

"Seagate Technology said on Tuesday that it is shipping its 400GB Barracuda 7200.8 hard drive to retail outlets, resellers, and system builders. The drive, which stores up to 133GB on a single disk, features single-chip SATA interface technology with native command queuing (NCQ.) The firm said the Barracuda is targeted at high-performance gaming systems, workstations, and entry-level servers. Interfaces for the drive come in options of native SATA or Ultra ATA. The drive features a 7,200-rpm spin speed and an 8.0-msec average seek time."

From what Seagate is saying, it looks like the drive is targeted directly at everyone that reads DMT. A quick search showed the drive to be around $400 for the 8MB cache version, I am assuming the 16MB cache drive will be at least $50-100 more.