Seagate has announced the Momentus Thin, a new line of super slim laptop hard drives that measure only 7mm thick for fitting into similarly slim ultraportables. It’s a pretty significant size-cut, with the average 2.5-incher (such as Seagate’s own Momentus 5400.6) usually measuring 9.5mm. The Momentus Thin will pack a standard 5400rpm spindle, a SATA 3Gb/s interface, and an 8MB cache, but limited capacity that tops out at 250GB.
Now why would you care? These slim new drives give manufacturers the ability to fit 160GB/ 250GBs on ultraportables and netbooks without having to turn to expensive solid state drives. The Momentus Thin will be shipping first to OEMs starting January with a price of $50 for the 250GB model—at least several hundreds of dollars cheaper than the cheapest 250GB solid state drive available.
Tags: Hard Drives, Notebooks, Seagate, Storage
