Seagate Breaks Areal Density Record; 40gb a Platter

MadRat

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Seagate Breaks Areal Density Record with New U Series: First Hard Drive with 40GB per Disc

Seagate Technology announced yesterday it was shipping its newest U Series disc drive, the first offering up to 80GB on just two platters and a record-breaking areal density of 32.6Gbits per sq.inch. The new U Series is the sixth generation of the best-selling hard drive in history.

The new U Series spins up faster than ever, improving time-to-ready by 35% over previous generations to improve PC boot-up time. It features faster internal transfer rates of up to 54.5MB/sec, an 8.9ms seek time, the largest cache in its class at 2MB, and the Ultra ATA/100 interface for external burst transfer rates up to 100MB/sec. With Seagate's exclusive 3D Defense System and ?sound barrier technology? (SBT), U Series offers the best combination of ruggedness, performance and quiet operation for mainstream PC and CE applications.


This generation of U Series also offers a disc drive created specifically for Consumer Electronics (CE) companies who demand outstanding acoustics performance. U Series CE, now shipping to CE OEMs, utilizes fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) motors to achieve idle acoustics of 27 decibels.
 

tigerbait

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<<, the largest cache in its class at 2MB >>

I don't think I've seen a drive lately that didn't have 2 MB buffer.

Any idea if this is going to be a 5400 or 7200 rpm?