Seagate Momentus Thin 7mm hard drive for slim laptops launched
Remember we’d told you about the upcoming Seagate Momentus ultra-slim hard disk drive for ultra-slim laptops? Well, Seagate today went official with its latest baby and shared some exciting details with the world. Reportedly, the Seagate Momentus Thin is a 7mm thin, 2.5″ drive boasting 250GB / 160GB storage capacity. The world’s slimmest drive is an amazing development in the hard drive world because this one reduces the size of a typical hard disk drive by whole 25%, providing more room to laptop manufacturers to further reduce size for their ultra-slim notebooks.
Seagate also reports that the Momentus Thin drive gives original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and system integrators significantly lower cost-per-gigabyte storage than solid state and 1.8-inch drives, enabling a new breed of entry-level thin laptops.
Other features include an 8MB cache, a Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface and a 5400RPM spin speed.
The drive is scheduled to ship to Seagate’s OEM and integrator partners in January 2010.
No word on pricing.
