Seagate to Release World's Thinnest 2.5-inch HDD
Seagate shaves 2.5 mm from laptop drives.

As our devices get slimmer in form factor, the demand rises for the miniaturization of components. Storage hardware, however, is standardized to several sizes, with 9.5 mm being the typical height for the 2.5-inch drives used in laptops and notebooks.
System designers wanting something slimmer than 9.5 mm can turn to 1.8-inch drives or SSD, but that in turn drives up costs. Seagate believes that it has the perfect answer to this with its upcoming line of Momentus Thin hard drives it plans to launch next week.
The storage company has created what it touts as the world's thinnest 2.5-inch laptop drive, measuring in with a 7 mm height. Seagate says that its solution provides the lowest-cost storage for netbooks and thin laptops, enabling computer makers to offer systems that reach a broader market.
The Momentus Thin will feature two capacity points – 250GB and 160GB – both packing an 8MB cache, a Serial ATA 3Gb/second interface and a 5400RPM spin speed. The drive will be available to Seagate’s OEM and integrator partners in January 2010.
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Just drop it.
Just drop it.
**** you please
Just stop
Anyways, I hope they managed to slice the price as well as the drive.
gogo seagate
Toshiba's been offering RAID in laptops for quite a long time now with its Qosmio series. But it's not in all models and these laptops are huge and heavy.
If everyone didn't think like you, it wouldn't get said. And the world would be a happier place. And children would frolic. And rabbits would happily bound around the meadows. Etc. Etc.
Oh well. Hope this latest seagate up's the reliability this time around.
That is a very interesting point.
how about some super thin 1.8" drives though? For a netbook, 80GB is enough for me. A decent 1.8" HDD would be nice, because a 80GB Intel x18-m costs about $230.
Nice to see them making them smaller. But at this size and capacity, flash memory becomes much more of an option.
It's a valid question, at least it wasn't the dick who keeps saying
LOLZ! FIRST!!!
and yes, it will load Crysis ......
now stop asking !
So true...
Though, a OS taking 15GB, additional programs taking 10GB, family photos/videos etc. taking 5GB, porn collection taking 20GB, 5GB for a pagefile, and Crysis taking 10GB... a 80GB drive would start to run out of space. Good thing this is 160GB+. =D
Honestly, I don't give a damn abot Crysis posts. First LOLZ posts do piss me off though (and I have skipped my chance on Toms a few times).
What about a 2.5" 5mm HDD?
and you can apply this to almost anything.
"first" posts are much much much much worse. Crysis posts are amusing sometimes.