Seagate, a world leader in the manufacturing of high performance hard disk drives, in association with Western Digital has recently unleashed a new sophisticated hard drive named the Barracuda 7200.12 HDD. It’s a 3.5 inch hard drive running at speed of 7200-RPM. It has got an aerial density of 329 Gigabits per square inch and hence the performance it gives is outstanding. The Barracuda has got only two platters and offers 1TB of storage space.

This hard drive is developed to bolster the most demanding PC applications. It has got a 3Gb/sec Serial ATA interface, that’s the industry’s leading standard offering incredible data read/write rates. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 3.5 inch hard drive will also be released in 750GB and 500GB storage capacities with a built in high speed cache memory of 32MB and 16MB respectively.

The company also announced its Constellation hard drives. The Constellation series has got two speedy and reliable hard drives. One measures 2.5 inches and the other measures 3.5 inches. Both the drives are optimised for enterprise level deployment and feature Seagate’s PowerChoice technology that reduces the power consumption by up to 54 percent. The Constellation 2.5-inch hard drive is available in 160GB and 500GB storage capacities and the 3.5 inch Constellation HDD comes in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities. Both versions of the Constellation series are available with SATA as well as SAS interface.

A few years ago International Business Machines, popularly known as IBM was unable to develop fault free Deskstar 75GXP hard disk drives. The company formed a negative image in the market and users were used to calling the Deskstar drives Deathstars. History has now repeated itself. The only difference is this time the Seagate is on the target.

Recently, the company’s firmware patch malfunctioned badly for the users of barracuda 7200.11 hard disk drives with DiamondMax22 and Barracuda ES.2 models, such as the Seagate Barracuda ES.2 250 GB, for example. The firmware bug caused sudden crash of 500GB and 1TB Barracuda hard drives. The company has withdrawn the firmware update for further development, fixing and extensive lab testing. As of now the users are advised to roll back to the previous firmware as Seagate moves in to fix the problem. The company however claims that the firmware malfunction do not results in data loss. All the stored stuff still resides on the drive.

According to Seagate,” There is no data loss associated with this issue, and the data still resides on the drive. But if you are unable to access your data due to this issue, Seagate will provide free data recovery services. Seagate will work with you to expedite a remedy to minimize any disruption to you or your business.”