Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB hard drive

More hard drive news today with Seagate announcing its very own 1TB internal desktop drives, the Barracuda 7200.11 and ES.2. Both boast a SATA rate of 3GB/s with the ES.2 offering an SAS interface option, and have transfer rates of 105 MB/s with a 32MB cache, 4.16 msec latency and they’ll spin you right around at 7200 rpm.

The 7200.11 (aimed at desktop users) will retail for US$400 and will be available in the third quarter of the year. The price and the spec practically match the 7200.11’s main competitor the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000. This launch smacks of ‘if they’ve got one out there we have to have one too’ kind of mentality as the drive really offers nothing new. But competition is always good in the computer hardware arena.