Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 TB

Barracuda 7200.11: The world's first 1.5TB 3.5-Inch HDD from Seagate

Seagate announced its “World’s First 1.5TB Desktop HDD”, the Barracuda 7200.11, which should be able in August. This new 3.5-Inch SATA HDD integrates 4 platters of 375GB and provides a data rate transfer of 120MB/second. Also available in 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, 500GB, 320GB and 160GB version.
Seagate also announced 2.5-Inch 500GB 5400/7200rpm HDD, the Momentus Series. Concerning this series, they will be available in Q4.

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-July 10, 2008-Seagate (NYSE:STX) today unveiled the industry’s first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives to meet explosive worldwide demand for digital-content storage in home and business environments.

The debut of the Barracuda® 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive, the eleventh generation of Seagate’s flagship drive for desktop PCs, marks the single largest capacity hard drive jump in the more than half-century history of hard drives – a half-terabyte increase from the previous highest capacity of 1TB, thanks to the capacity-boosting power of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology.

The Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines proven PMR technology, components and expert manufacturing to provide 1.5TB of reliable storage for mainstream desktop computers, workstations, desktop RAID, gaming and high-end PCs, and USB/FireWire/eSATA external storage.

Seagate’s new 2.5-inch half-terabyte 5400- and 7200-rpm drives – Momentus® 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4 – deliver the best combination of capacity, mobility and durability for mainstream and high-performance notebook computers, external storage solutions, PCs and industrial applications requiring small form factor.

Highlighting the global growth of digital content, Seagate expects to ship its two billionth hard drive within the next five years. Earlier this year Seagate shipped its one billionth hard drive since the company’s inception nearly 30 years ago.

“Organizations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new applications and demand for desktop and notebook computers with unprecedented storage capacity, performance and reliability,” said Michael Wingert, Seagate executive vice president and general manager, Personal Compute Business. “Seagate is committed to powering the next generation of computing today with the planet’s fastest, highest-capacity and most reliable storage solutions.”

Momentus 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4 hard drives are the fourth generation of Seagate’s laptop family to use PMR. The Momentus 5400.6, a 5400-rpm drive, combines a powerful Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface and capacities ranging from 120GB to 500GB with an 8MB cache.

The Momentus 7200.4 hard drive, with its 7200-rpm spin speed and a Serial ATA 3GB/second interface, delivers true desktop performance. The power-efficient 7200-rpm drive maximizes battery life and comes in capacities ranging from 250GB to 500GB with a 16MB cache.

Both Momentus drives are built tough enough to withstand up to 1,000 Gs of non-operating shock and 350 Gs of operating shock to protect drive data, making the drives ideal for systems that are subject to rough handling or high levels of vibration. For added robustness in mobile environments, the Momentus 5400.6 and 7200.4 are offered with G-Force Protection, a free-fall sensor technology that helps prevent drive damage and data loss upon impact if a laptop PC is dropped. The sensor works by detecting any changes in acceleration equal to the force of gravity and parks the heads off the disc to prevent contact with the platter in a free fall of as little as 8 inches and within 3/10ths of a second.

Seagate’s new Momentus drives are lean on power consumption, allowing notebook users to work longer between battery charges, and are virtually inaudible thanks to Seagate’s innovative SoftSonic™ fluid-dynamic bearing motors and QuietStep™ ramp load technology.

The Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive combines the capacity and speed required for today’s most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive packs 1.5TB on just four platters and its fast Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an industry-leading sustained data rate of up to 120MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 1TB, 750GB, 640GB, 500GB, 320GB and 160GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

All Momentus and Barracuda drives are backed by Seagate’s leading five-year warranty. You can find photos of these three new drives, and other Seagate products, at: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/about/news_room/photos/

Availability
Shipments of the Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB are set to begin August 2008. Momentus 5400.6 and 7200.4 hard drives are to begin shipping in Q4 calendar 2008.

About Seagate Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate’s business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world’s growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com.

Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. Barracuda, Momentus, SoftSonic and QuietStep are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for illustrative purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications

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Seagate Cheetah: The HDD with Full Self-Encryption

Seagate Cheetah: The HDD with Full Self-Encryption

Named after a kind of “leopard” (go and check for yourself on Wikipedia), and not after Tarzan's famous monkey (Cheeta), here's the new High-Speed Self Encrypting HDD from Seagate (15K.6 FDE). The perfect solution for security freaks or large companies which need to keep their data secure once the HDD is removed from a server.
Seagate® Cheetah® Drives Enter New Habitat -- Self-Encrypting Hard Drives for Servers and Storage Arrays
Security tools for mission-critical enterprise data drives the need for Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 FDE hard drives

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.-April 7, 2008-Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) today introduced a new breed of hard drive, the Cheetah ® 15K.6 FDE (Full Disk Encryption) disc drive family, the world’s first self-encrypting hard drives for mission-critical servers and storage arrays. As part of the award-winning Cheetah family, the industry-standard in performance and reliability in data centers, the new Cheetah 15K.6 FDE hard drive now also encrypts data as well. And that encryption goes anywhere the hard drive goes – whether it is moved, stored, or retired.

“The data breaches widely reported in the media generally focus on stolen laptops and PCs, but people forget about the staggering amount of information leaving the data center daily,” said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. “Equipment and systems with hard drives inside are continuously being retired, relocated or repaired and there’s often little thought given to properly disposing of the data they contain before they leave the data center. A recent investigation showed that 50% of the drives returned for servicing by customers contained readable sectors. If you assume that an average system’s lifecycle is three to five years that suggests that more than 50 thousand enterprise drives are leaving data centers daily worldwide. If only half of those hard drives are readable, that’s at least 2,500TB per day of exposed data available in the open market. The increasing flow of exposed sensitive data ought to be a serious concern to CIO’s everywhere.”

Compared to other encryption technologies, self-encryption within the hard drive brings significant performance, management, and security benefits for users. Since the encryption engine is in the drive’s controller ASIC, encryption is transparently fast and performance automatically scales with every drive added to a data center. Because there is no performance cost associated with encrypting more data, there is no need to make fine-grained decisions as to what data to protect – which can eliminate the need for data classification. Self-encryption requires no change to the OS, applications, or databases. Instantaneous Key-Erase™ technology, a standard on all Seagate FDE hard drives, facilitates quick and secure removal, whether for repurposing, returning for service, or disposal.

Leading analysts, standards bodies, and major storage providers have closely evaluated and concluded that self-encrypting drives deliver critical benefits for data center information security.

Gartner:
“Many organizations are considering drive-level security for its simplicity in helping secure sensitive data through the hardware lifecycle from initial setup, to upgrade transitions and disposal,” said Eric Ouellet, research vice president, Secure Business Enablement, Gartner. “Hard drive disposal in particular has always been one of the most challenging elements of the data security lifecycle. Even with secure disposal processes in place, misplacement, mislabeling and theft still do occur which can result in significant losses, possible penalties and fines. Eliminating the risk of compromise from the source is one approach that can significantly reduce the complexity of managing sensitive data.”

IBM:
“Enterprise customers today, especially in the financial services sector, have a keen interest in protecting data-at-rest. Natively securing data in the storage drive without any system performance degradation is the next frontier in truly securing data and storage media that eventually leaves the data center,” said Robert Cancilla, vice president of Disk Systems, IBM. “Introduced over a year ago, IBM’s self encrypting tape solutions, featuring key management software, continue to address this security priority without the traditional impact to I/O performance, while simplifying encryption key management. We’re excited about working with Seagate to bring this model to our disk offerings.”

LSI:
“With the continued headlines about data breaches and emerging government mandates, the need for data-at-rest encryption has come front and center,” said Phil Bullinger, executive vice president, Engenio Storage Group, LSI. “By encrypting at the drive level, users can potentially eliminate application impact and reduce worry about drives being lost, stolen or repurposed. LSI is pleased to be working with other industry leaders to drive critical developments in standards-based encryption technology.”

Trusted Computing Group:
“Full drive encryption enabled in hardware and based on the open standards created by the Trusted Computing Group with Seagate’s leadership can give administrators and users confidence that data will be encrypted quickly, easily and always,” noted Brian Berger, Trusted Computing Group marketing work group chair. “As demonstrated by the rapidly increasing number of lost, stolen or hacked drives, encryption in hardware really is the most effective solution to help ensure the security of at-rest mission-critical information. Otherwise, corporations potentially face millions or worse in government fines, lost business, lost goodwill and undermining of other corporate relationships.”

As a complementary solution for data protection of non-encrypted drives that leave the data center, the Seagate Recovery Services division recently announced its Data Erasure suite of products that utilize a series of advanced, defense-industry rated and approved algorithms to completely and permanently erase all data from a disk drive to ensure that proprietary and sensitive information does not get into the wrong hands. For more information, please contact a Seagate Recovery Services expert at 800-475-0143 or visit http://services.seagate.com/srs.

Details about the Cheetah 15K.6 FDE Family of Hard Drives
Available in capacities of 450GB, 300GB, and 147GB, the Cheetah 15K.6 family includes Seagate PowerTrim™ technology which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of activity. The Cheetah 15K.6 FDE family offers the highest 3.5-inch hard drive reliability in the industry at 1.6 million hours MTBF (0.55% AFR), a choice of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces, and a five-year limited warranty. The Cheetah 15K.6 FDE drive is shipping to OEM suppliers this quarter.

Encryption Technology at RSA
Seagate will be conducting a number of demonstrations at the RSA Conference this week (booth #144 to showcase its enterprise, notebook, and external hard drive solutions. In addition, Seagate has teamed with Wave Systems (booth #72 and the Trusted Computing Group (booth #2723) to jointly conduct client and server demonstrations. For more information about the RSA Conference program, visit: http://www.rsaconference.com/2008/US/home.aspx

Details on FDE security in whitepapers, podcasts, and webcasts can be found at: www.fdeSecurityLeaders.com.


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