Seagate has announced its first 8.9-centimeter disk drives using perpendicular storage technology, which it hopes will break through the storage limitations that are beginning to impact on hard-drive technology.
The three new drives join Seagate's existing Cheetah line of disks which are amongst the fastest in the industry for data transfer rates.
With a transfer rate of 73mbps to 125mbps, the Cheetah 15K.5 transfers data about 30 percent faster than the Cheetah 15K.4, which does not use perpendicular technology.
The Cheetah 15K.5 will be available in three models, each offering a different storage capacity: a 300GB model with four platters; a 147GB model with two platters and a 73GB model with a single platter.
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Apr 18, 2006, 04:52 PM
