World's Only 6GB/s 72000rpm 2TB hard-drive: Seagate

The world's only and first 6GB/s 72000rpm 2TB hard-drive is going to launch today by Seagate. Hard-drive consist of a four platter design sporting 500GB each! and each will rotate at 7200rpm.

Company is going to include a new 64MB cache scheme and transfer rate can touch about ~135 to 145 MB/s. This revlonary drive is available at an estimated price of $299, which come with an five year warrenty. And will be availabe at the end of this week in retail stores.

The older SATA 1.5 or 3 GB/s inerface can be embed and fully supported with auto-conifure by the new SATA 6G interface.

Seagate is also launching a new verison of SeaTools software which will allow user to short stroke their drives so that they can increase its performance.

500 GB Data In 2.5-Inch SSD By A-DATA

A-DATA technology revealed its 500 GB SSD at CeBIT 2009. The product launched by company is about 2.5 inch and is capable of storing about 500 GB.

A-DATA's 512 GB XPG 2.5 inch SSD offers notebooks and PC enthusiasts half a terabyte of storage with excellent read and write speeds. With Aluminum casing this small storing monster looks cool! Thou, company doesn't reveal its price.

When it comes to speed in both ways(read/write), the 2.5 inch SSD give a top speed of 230 MB/sec and 160 MB/sec respectively. In addition, 512 GB XPG 2.5 inch SSD can resists a shock of 1500G/0.5 ms and a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 1,500,00 hours (figures look good :-D .....)

"Continuing to leading in the industry, A-DATA is committed to provide the highest performance, capacity, and best quality products to satisfy the needs of PC enthusiasts," the company said. "Through the launch of the highest capacity of SSD in the industry, the 512 GB XPG 2.5-inch SSD is committed to satisfy the needs of notebook and PC enthusiasts on fast transfer rate and high capacity SSD."

A-DATA is the world’s second largest vendor of memory modules. The company’s main product lines include memory modules, flash memory drives/cards, and multimedia application products.