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Seeing an explosive growth in the desktop storage market, Seagate Technology announced the availability of its next generation Maxtor Onetouch4 family and Barracuda family with one terabyte (1TB) hard disk.

The vendor is targeting end users for the new Maxtor products. "The home is now larger than the office in the amount of storage consumed and content continues to explode," Rajesh Khurana, Country Manager (India and SAARC countries), Seagate Technology told itVARnews. "Whereas Barracuda targets high capacity storage needs of SMBs and enterprises like Data centers and call centers etc."

The key feature of Maxtor family is that it comes with five years warranty and Maxtor Safety Drill, which is the ultimate solution to disaster recovery. Also it provides one touch synchronization and password encryption. It is compatible with Windows Vista, XP and MAC operating system. Barracuda is best fitted to storage hungry business application, maximum capacity servers, gamers, rich media content storage, fire wire/ SATA personal storage, enterprises back up and restore.

Seagate is focusing on retail, solution providers and integrators to position these products in the market. "We follow a focused distribution model. Maxtor is user and channel friendly. We have given very attractive packing and handle on the cover so that retailers and dealers can also hang it. We timely organize training program and seminars to educate our channel partners, corporate and enterprises about new technology. We have 650 plus channel partners in India," added Khurana.

The company is planning to come up with nine more products in India in 2008. Discussing about the future plan Khurana revealed, "We are planning to focus on retail segment, Seagate branded segment, surveillance sector, and white box storage solution."

Pricing and Availability: The new Maxtor and Barracuda are currently available with Supertron computers.



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