Seagate Barracuda

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Seagate Barracuda is a hard disk drive series, most of which operate at a spindle speed of 7200 RPM. They are produced by Seagate Technology. Although initially they were marketed as high-performance drives with SCSI interfaces and high capacities for their time, since about 2001, they have become Seagate's main mass-market product as the hard drive industry moved to 7200 RPM for desktop drives. Seagate's original Barracuda hard drive, released in 1996, was the industry's first ever hard disk spinning at 7200RPM. As can be expected from the rotational speed milestone, the drives were very expensive but very fast, and mostly targeted toward servers. The original models, dubbed the Barracuda 2LP series, were available in 2.5GB or 1.2GB unformatted capacities with up to six platters and SCSI-2 interfaces.