The last product order date for Seagate’s ATA V and ATA IV drives was the 14th February and by now Seagate has probably started its product discontinuance program for the mentioned HDDs. To my surprise, the company’s latest hard disk drives, the Barracuda 7200.7 Plus, Barracuda 7200.7 and Barracuda 5400.1 that were introduced in early December, are still not available widely on the market; just a couple of weeks ago the mainstream hard disk drives actually started to make appearance on the shelves of certain stores, while the more advanced Barracuda 7200.7 Plus with 8MB buffer is still not available.

According to PriceWatch.com, Seagate Barracuda 5400.1 40GB is available in two stores for $88 and $93. The same search-engine claims that the Barracuda 7200.7 40GB HDD costs $99 in one online store. This Japanese web-site reports that it had found the 80GB Barracuda 7200.7 for $107-$116 in numerous stores in Tokyo.