Asus company mentioned that the first HDD with the SATA-600 interface can appear already at the end of September, as the appropriate statement made by Seagate company . In USA today began sales of barracuda XT series HDD with 2 Tb volume, that supports serial ATA interface , which transmits information with the speed of 6 Gbit/s.
In other respects, if we do not consider the new interface, this HDD is similar to the recently released by WD: volume two teras-byte is collected by four plates on 500 Gb, the rotation speed is equal to 7200 rp/min, while the buffer volume is 64 mb. The average energy consumption level is equal to 9,23 W, the average noise level in the search mode is 2,9 bels. Note the data transmission speed for this HDD is equal to 140 mb/s. In this case, the 600mb is worthless . However, in case of solid-state disk SATA-600 interface is much more necessary, but the corresponding products were not presented.
The cost of two-tera-byte model barracuda XT is equal to $299. Let us recall that ASRock and Asus already propose discrete controllers SATA-600. Related Products :
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