Seagate Technoogy, the world's largest producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Friday unveiled the world's first hard disk drive with 1.5TB capacity. The new product features four platters with record capacities.

The new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB (1500GB) hard drive features four 375GB platters, another world's record. Like other leading-edge Seagate HDDs, the novelty sports 7200rpm motor, 16MB or 32MB of cache as well as NCQ technology. The new hard disk drives are designed for Serial ATA-300 interface.

Like all large capacities HDDs, the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB utilizes platters featuring perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR).