Seagate lets loose 1TB and 2TB Enterprise hard drives
by from Techreport on (#29GGJ)
Yes, that headline is correct. No, you didn't "Quantum Leap" back to the halcyon days of the first terabyte-capacity hard drives. Seagate is actually releasing 3.5" magnetic hard drives for the enterprise market in 1TB and 2TB capacities, built for data centers with replicated servers and legacy solutions that require 512-byte sectors. The drives spin at 7,200 RPM and sport 6Gbps SATA interfaces, rather than the 12Gbps SAS interface commonly found on server drives. The drives employ conventional magnetic recording rather than the trickier and slower shingled magnetic recording.
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