subject: Seagate's 7mm Momentus Thin Hard Drive To Ship In 160GB And 250GB Sizes [print this page] Share:In past, if manufacturer needed make notebook lighter in weight, use SSD is a good choice, now there is another way to supersede.
The STX has announce that they've made world thinnest 2.5" harddrive, the drive will be 7mm in height, which is 25% slimmer than conventional 9.5mm 2.5" drives. Better stil.
However, these 2.5" drives are far cheaper to produce and sell than those super-tiny 1.8" HDDs that are shoved within enhance level notebook computer and the like, so there's a fair chance that future low-end notebooks could see a capacity boost at the same price point here soon.
Seagate provide 160GB and 250GB capacity, 8M buffer, SATA 3Gb/s interface, 5,400RPM spped. planning to ship on Jan, 2010.
