Seagate Technology began shipping today the Barracuda 7200.10 a new version of its popular desktop drive that now deploys perpendicular recording.
Barracuda 10 drives have capacity ranging from 200GB to 750GB and offer both parallel and serial ATA connectivity. Drives with 250GB or larger capacity double the onboard cache to 16MB.
Starting on Monday, May 1st Seagate will begin offering Barracuda 10 drives also on external models. A 750GB external drive should sell for about $559.
The company estimates a retail price of $104 for an internal 200GB SATA Barracuda 10 and of $590 for a 750GB SATA model.
Seagate covers the Barracuda 10 with a 5 year warranty.
Posted by Mario Apicella on April 26, 2006 06:01 AM
