Seagate Technology Thinnest 2.5 inch Hard Drive Momentus Storage

Seagate Technology announced Drive Momentus thin, world’s thinnest 2.5-inch hard drive for gaming laptops and entry-level, high-end netbooks, back-up equipment and consumer electronics On a thin 7mm high – 25 percent thinner than the traditional 2.5-inch 9.5mm Laptop hard drives – the Momentus drive Dunne gives original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators significantly lower cost per gigabyte of storage than solid state and 1.8-inch drives, allowing a new breed of entry-level thin laptops.

Of all netbook computers available today, 90 percent feature 9.5mm 2.5-inch laptop because solid state drives and 1.8-inch hard drives are the most priceless costs for this market. The Thin Momentus drive offers the lowest cost storage for netbooks and small laptops, computer makers for making the systems to a broader market to offer. Amazon store provided some of Seagate HDD to be purchased.

The Momentus Thin rivals traditional 2.5-inch disk drives in notebook performance and power efficiency, making thin-frame design in all segments of the notebook computers and enabling OEMs to design, both in greater value on high-end netbooks to upselling easier and creating a broader value distinction between private and business notebooks. The Thin Momentus drive has two points of 250GB and 160GB capacities – an 8MB cache, a Serial ATA interface 3Gb/second and a 5400RPM spin speed. The drive is scheduled to ship Seagate’s OEM and integrator partners in January 2010. [via techblogger]