Seagate today announced five product refreshes that include both its solid-state drive (SSD) line and its high-performance, midrange and high-capacity hard-disk drives. The upgrades boost performance and capacity by between 50% and 100%.

All of its new drives come with a self-encrypting option. Seagate boosted the cache on all of its HDDs from 16MB to 64MB, which boosts performance on each model.

With the exception of its new 3TB Constellation ES.2 HDD, the product launch consists of all 2.5-in. form factor drives.

"We're standardizing on 2.5-in. form factor and SAS interface. That way, we can help reduce [system manufacturer's] operating costs and increase their efficiencies," said Teresa Worth, senior product marketing manager for mission critical technology at Seagate.

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