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Seagate packs a terabyte on two disks 500GB per disk

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Seagate has announced volume shipments of a mainstream desktop hard drive with the what company claims, is industry's highest areal density. Packing 1TB of capacity on two disks, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive features an areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch to deliver the combination of capacity, performance and reliability for PCs, desktop RAID and personal external storage. "Demand for more desktop PC storage capacity is far from letting up as computer users worldwide generate massive amounts of digital content every day," said Rajesh Khurana, Country Manager India and SAARC, Seagate Technology. "Seagate is leading the industry with new storage solutions designed to store, share and manage all of that business- and user-generated content."

The Barracuda 7200.12 hard drive provides combination of storage capacity and speed required for today's most demanding desktop PC applications. The drive's Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface delivers an sustained data rate of up to 160MB/second for fast boot, application startup and file access and a burst speed of 3Gb/second. The 3.5-inch drive is also offered in capacities of 750GB and 500GB with cache options of 32MB and 16MB.

India Ranks 41st in the Global Innovation Index

India falls 18 places in global innovation index. In last year's Index India was ranked 23^rd out of 107 countries. In the current edition, which is the second edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) India has been ranked 41 among 130 countries. The United States has been ranked first, Germany second and Sweden third in this year's index.

This report puts China at 37, eight places down from last year but four places ahead of India. Also last year, global research and advisory firm Economist Intelligence Unit ranked India 58 on its list of innovative countries, one rank above China. Indian policymakers and scientists frequently compare their research and innovation output with China's, which in the past two decades has overtaken India on several indices that measure scientific prowess of countries.