There are a lot of choices when you are looking for more storage in your computer.  There are many factors that should come into play.  It's not as simple as it used to be.  Several years ago, the only real option you had was size.  If you wanted speed, you chose the 7200rpm over the 5400rpm.  Today's factors, include the pure speed of the SSD with their limited size and extreme expense, 10,000rpm drives with their heat and noise, different cache sizes, all of the many RAID options and now there's a new SATA speed.  It can be a fairly complicated endeavor.  Far gone are the days when you wanted a hard drive and the only question you were asked was, "what size?".  Seagate has been a leader in hard drives for many years and they are constantly striving to make the drives larger and faster.  Today's hard drive is the largest single consumer drive on the market and is surprisingly fast.  Let's take a look.

Key Features & Benefits

 ▪ A massive 2-TB drive capacity provides plenty of room for downloading today‘s space-hungry PC games or up to 45 hours of 1080i, HD-DVCPRO-encoded, high-definition video.

•  ▪ The 7200-RPM performance platform complements high capacity, delivering a power combination of extreme storage and top-end desktop performance.

• ▪ A 64-MB cache optimizes burst performance and reduces data throughput bottlenecks.

• ▪ The SATA 6Gb/s interface enables the use of the industry‘s newest and fastest hard drive controllers while providing backward compatibility to legacy SATA 1.5Gb/s or 3Gb/s systems.

• ▪ Configurable with Seagate® SeaTools™ software—Users can optimize the drive configuration and tune for capacity or performance for the ultimate in customer choice and control.

Best Fit Applications

• High-performance PC gaming systems

• High-definition video editing and production systems

• Home servers and workstations

• Desktop RAID

• FireWire 800- or eSATA-enabled external storage devices