Seagate 7200.10 500GB: Hitting the Sweet Spot @ AnandTech
 

*Source: AnandTech (http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3030)*
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Seagate announced the Barracuda 7200.10 series over a year ago as the successor to their Barracuda 7200.9 series with much surprise as that particular product line had only been marketed for a very short period. The Barracuda 7200.10 series quickly became their flagship product for personal desktop solutions with the 7200.9 series quickly being regulated as a value performance offering. The Barracuda 7200.10 product was the first desktop centric hard drive to feature perpendicular magnetic recording technology.

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