Seagate Savvio 10K.4 Drive Puts 600GB Into 2.5-Inch Form [HDD]

The Seagate Savvio 10K.4 is an enterprise storage HDD, which means you're likely not going to just go out and buy one. But it's notable for just how much information it can fit into one tiny disk drive.

Its 600GB capacity is twice what's currently available on the market, and Seagate's asserting that it's 25% more reliable than any other drive, with an annualized failure rate of just 0.44%. And while it'd be nice to have one of my very own, at least I know that it's about to make some IT manager out there very happy.
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Seagate Barracuda XT "World's Fastest Hard Drive" 2x Faster Than Yours With 6Gbps Transfer Speeds [Hard Drives]

The SATA 3.0 spec—which doubles transfer speeds from 3Gbps to 6Gbps—was officially released in May, and it looks like Seagate is first out the gate with actual hardware (no surprise), the 2TB Barracuda XT.

The four-platter drive has also got a massive 64MB cache, necessary, really, with that much space. You just need a brand new motherboard to use it—or add-on controllers, though it is backward-compatible with legacy SATA ports. Oh, and 300 $. [Seagate, Image via Scoblizer]