If a 1 TB hard-drive is insufficient for you and you don't have space to add another drive. you needn't worry as Seagate has introduced a 1.5TB HOD. Which will provide you massive storage capacity within the same form-factor. To achieve the capacityof 1.5 TB. Seagate didn't crcimm in: any additional disk platter, rather increased the disk storage density to about 375GB. so that the hard-drive's thickness doesn't change. With the launch of this Barracuda drive, Seagate marks the single largest capacity jump in the history of hard-drives, an increase of 500GB from the previous highest cap?city of 1 TB.

As the name suggests, the drive has a spindle speed of 7200 RPM. and it uses Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technique, wherein the data bits
are arranged perpendicular to the disk's platter. as against the lateral alignment of bits in legacy drives.

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Thus, Barracuda raised the bar on capacity front. As a result of higher areal density of the platters, the drive's performance has increased, and can provide a sustained data rate of upto 120MB/s. The drive is eco-friendly as it meets the RoHS requirements and also consumes lesser power; when at idle mode it consumes 8W, and when compared to other Seagate drives, is lower. At this price and such a huge capacity, the drive is an ideal choice for Home Theater systems and high end gaming machines where space is a constraint and capacity demand is always high.