At Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (known as WinHEC) in early May Seagate demonstrated its newest serial ATA hard drive, which begins shipping to retailers in a few weeks.

What’s interesting about the new Barracuda 7200.7 isn’t its spin speed, which is a standard 7200 rotations per minute. It’s not the capacity, either–a fairly pedestrian 160GB. What’s exceptional about this drive is that it includes a new technology called Native Command Queuing that effectively makes the drive smarter, allowing it to perform on par with notably pricier drives that spin much faster.

If it truly is beating the 10,000 RPM Raptor hard drives in benchmark tests then Seagate has a winner on their hands. -KingFish

Source: PCWorld