With thousands of trumpets, folks over at Seagate unleashed in the arena a spectacular premiere: a 6Gbps 2TB disk offering full support the third generation SATA interface. For those of you that don’t know 6Gbps is twice the rate of current controllers.

The 3.5-inch SATA 6Gbps Barracuda XT drive boasts with 64MB cache and no less than 4 x 500 GB platters spun at 7200RPM. According to the manufacturer the transfer rate will be of 140MBps, the MTBF will count 750,000 hours and the warranty will be provided for 5 years. But in five years… who knows what else will we be using?

The drive is SATA 1.5Gbps / 3Gbps compatible and if you’re willing to give it a try you should know that starting this week Seagate is selling the Barracuda XT for $299.

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