Seagate Technology LLC presently started dispatching a 6Gbit/sec serial ATA hard disk drive, which doubles the output of its earlier high-end SATA drive.

The latest 2TB hard drive is the former obtainable drive that convenes the SATA International Organization's SATA 3.0 specifications, Seagate whispered.

The latest Barracuda XT (or model ST32000641AS) is a 3.5-in, 7,200RPM desk top drive with 64MB of cache. It holds a producer recommended trade cost of $299.

Firstly, Seagate observe only a niche market for the drive, but alleged that by 2011, it guess that SATA 3.0 motherboards will be everywhere as well as that software will need the drive's 6Gbit/sec bandwidth.

"In logic, it's excellent Seagate's in the lead to get this to market, but acceptance is actually going depend on the accessibility of 6Gbit/sec SATA on the host side," alleged John Rydning, research director for hard disk drives at IDC in Framingham, Mass.

At first, Seagate alleged it guess the Barracuda XT to be used in high performance PCs, workstations, and low cost servers by one to four drives. It will be expected also be used early on in exterior storage systems. (Seagate's previous 2TB drive was in its Constellation enterprise line.)

The first objective audience is multimedia developers as well as high-performance gamers, Seagate alleged.

Seagate is all set to reveal the hard drive at the Intel Developers Forum this week in San Francisco.