Seagate ups ante to 1.5TB with new Barracuda hard drive

1.5TB is the new 1TB.

(Credit: Seagate)

Really, one terabyte isn't enough? If so, you'll be pleased to know that your insatiable need for more digital storage has left Seagate no choice but to announce the world's first 1.5TB hard drive. The half-terabyte jump over previous highest capacity 1TB drives, Seagate is happy to point out, represents the largest jump in capacity in hard-drive history. The 3.5-inch Barracuda 7200.11 uses perpendicular magnetic recording, which squeezes more 1s and 0s per square inch than conventional drives, to pack 1.5TB of storage space over four platters. Seagate isn't sharing pricing details yet. The drive will begin shipping in August.

Also today, Seagate announced a pair of 500GB laptop drives, the Momentus 5400.6 and the Momentus 7200.4. These 5,400rpm and 7,200rpm 2.5-inch drives won't ship until Q4 of this year.

[Press release]

[SAMSONRODRIGUEZ]

Will this fit in my nov 2007 Macbook with the 2.2ghz Intel? im nearly clueless to this, but i can google the specs and size of its original hdd, just needed a second opinion. thanks

[chrgeorgeson]

This is good news for people who are building HTPC and want to back up all of there DVD's (uncompressed) and still have room for PVR functionality.
It's not stupid to come out with drives like these like Matthew Elliot was insinuating. I only have 2 drive bays open in my slim HTPC case and I plan to get as much capacity as possible seeing how I have over 200 DVD's I would like to back up. Unfortunately this still isn't enough for me. But the good news is that 1TB drives should start falling soon.

[Matt E]

Oh, I don't mean to say a 1.5TB drive is stupid. It's just that, personally, I have nowhere near a terabyte of digital media. Maybe a quarter of that, between photos from my 6MP camera and my roughly 6000-song iTunes library. My movies I get on demand. But to those consumers who like to "back up" their DVD collection, this 1.5TB Barraduda drive is no doubt good news. And, yes, with prices soon to drop on 1TB drives, you could also double up on a pair of those for an even 2TB of space.

And to Samson Rodriquez's question, the 2.5-inch Momentus drives should fit in your MacBook. Looks like you'll have to wait until October or later for those.

[guest86]

I don't trust with Seagate anymore. Go Western Digital all way. This make me feel afraid to lost my files easily.

[JWilliams06]

No, this will NOT fit in your little Macbook. It's not a notebook drive.... notebook drives = 2.5"; desktop drives = 3.5"

Terabytes are anywhere close on notebook hard drives. I think the highest so far is maybe 500gb.... but I'm not sure if it has even been released yet.

[iff2mastamatt]

Lol. I just bought a 1TB HD. Ohhh well. Soon there will be HD's that can hold 1 yotabyte! (which is a ton of teribytes!)

[JImmyJungJung]

I had a Seagate once. It locked up and I lost my entire system. took days to restore it all.
www.FireMe.To/udi

[Filthpig5000]

Yea, I am waiting for a drive that will hold 1 yodabyte (yea I know it's yottabyte, but I am trying to get people to say yodabyte now while I still have the chance.

I have 4TB of tv shows, movies, mp3, so I think I will buy this drive to consolidate.