Suhit Gupta
11-18-2004, 04:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.techweb.com/wire/hardware/53200125' target='_blank'>http://www.techweb.com/wire/hardware/53200125</a><br /><br /></div><i>"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."</i><br /><br />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.