Seagate: Hard Disk 2.5 inches 7 mm thick

The portable hard drive for the finest in the world? No doubt in Seagate today announced the arrival on the market of its "Thin Momentus, a 2.5-inch hard drive only 7 millimeters thick. Using a SATA interface, it will decline in capacity of 160 and 250 GB It provides 8 MB of cache and embeds a turntable at 5400 revolutions per minute. No index performance has been given, but there is perhaps not the main argument of the American manufacturer.

For Seagate, the big names of the notebook sector wishing to develop very thin laptops today have two options: switch to 1.8-inch hard drives (choice made by Sony for its high Vaio range by 11 inches) or embrace the very interesting but expensive SSD. With this disc of 7 mm, Seagate expects to be able to offer a fresh alternative to the two offers, ensuring unmatched price per gigabyte particularly good integrators. Intended primarily for OEM, the Momentus Thin will be delivered from January 2010. For now, the price was not disclosed.