Seagate introduces thin notebook hard drives

The mass of the "Momentus Thin" series is 7 mm high dell inspiron 6400 battery. They appear with capacities of 160 and 250 GByte. The market launch is scheduled for January 2010.

Seagate has announced a new series called Hard Drive Momentus thin ". The 2.5-inch hard drives are designed primarily for use in laptops and notebooks. With a height of 7 millimeters, they fall about 25 percent thinner than conventional models in the 2.5-inch format.

The mass storage feature a SATA II interface, the theoretical transfer rates of up to 3 Gb / s possible. They appear in capacities of 160 and 250 GB and have a large 8 MB cache. Their speed is the manufacturer with 5400 dell inspiron 8600 battery revolutions per minute.

Seagate will begin in early January with the delivery of Thin Momentus hard drives to PC manufacturers, and shortly thereafter they should also regularly be available in stores. The prices, the company no information.

Under the name "Pulsar" Seagate was the beginning of December’s first Solid State Drive announced. It is intended for the server market, and appears with capacities of 50, 100 and 200 GByte. As Flash modules are single-level cells are used – the most powerful, but also the most expensive technology in the SSD segment dell inspiron 9300 battery.

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With a height of 7 millimeters Seagate Momentus-Thin "is series 25 percent thinner than conventional 2.5-inch hard drives (Photo: Seagate-dell inspiron b120 battery).