IDF Fall 2003: Seagate launches world first 100GB platter

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 16 Sep 2003 at 16:17

Seagate has announced the world's first 100GB platter which means its latest two-platter Barracuda drive will offer 200GB of storage, in both parallel and serial ATA flavours.

The company also announced its Fibre Channel solution - a collaboration with QLogic and Condre for small and mid-sized enterprises that offers data throughput of 2Gb/sec across storage systems with capacities up to 2.3 Terabytes.

'The speed, distance and networkability benefits of upgrading from SCSI to Fibre Channel storage solutions are obvious to small and medium enterprises,' said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing QLogic Corp. 'The Condre Solution, powered by QLogic and Seagate, sets an important trend for this important market.'

The companies claim that a storage system based on Fibre Channel costs roughly the same as a SCSI equivalent.