6 Gbps Barracuda XTs roll out of Seagate's factories

The SATA3 era is slowly entering.

Earlier this month, Western Digital announced its 2TB, performance-tuned Caviar Black hard drive, after which there was not much to wait for a response, as Seagate also completed its own high-performance 2TB 3,5 ″ - with its Barracuda XT. The lightning-fast new drive is made up of four 500GB disks, 7200 rpm, and a cache size of 64MB. It’s all pretty good, but it wouldn’t have made such a bang for the new Barracuda yet. What explodes a lot, though, is the interface, as it already uses a SATA3 6 Gbps interface to the aforementioned Caviar Black (and now all other desktop hard drives as well), the first in the history of hard drives.

The Barracuda XT is measured by the factory to provide data transfer of no less than 140 MB / s and has an average lifespan of 750 hours (MTBF), with a five-year Seagate warranty. Sales of the new Seagate 000 TB HDD will begin this week at a starting price of around $ 2 (today's exchange rate is $ 299), the same amount as the current price of the black WD model. So the new standard is slowly coming to life everyday, so we’ll be looking forward to the performance of SSDs that use a 55 Gbps interface in addition to HDDs. Of course, this also requires that many more motherboards support SATA383 in the future, but hopefully this will not be a problem.

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