Seagate, a provider of storage solutions, has equipped its latest hard drive (HD) - Barracuda 7200.12 - with areal density of 329 gigabits (Gb) per square inch. With the industry's highest areal density (as per the company claims), the Barracuda offers1TB of capacity on just two disks. According to Seagate, the HD delivers the best combination of capacity, performance and reliability for PCs, desktop RAID and personal external storage.

"Demand for more desktop PC storage capacity is far from letting up as computer users worldwide generate massive amounts of digital content every day," said Rajesh Khurana, Country Manager (India and SAARC), Seagate Technology.

The Barracuda 7200.12 HD provides a stellar combination of storage capacity, and speed required for today's most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive's Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers data rate of up to 160MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 750GB and 500GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

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