On June 25, 2007 Seagate Technology announced their latest product of 1 terabyte (TB) hard drives. This Baracuda HD largest series will deliver high capability to deal with an industry-size server requirement which consist of combination of capacity, performance and reliability.
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2 is able to store 1TB of data. It has 7,200-rpm spin speeds and average seek times of as low as 8.5ms. Its internal cache could store up to 32MB and apparently it comes with Seagate’s five-year limited warranty.
The Barracuda 7200.11 has the highest data transfer rate for HDD. It has 105 MB/s sustained transfer rate. A heavy duty server will gain performance improvement when using HDD with this high data transfer capability.