Seagate's 7mm Momentus Thin 2.5-inch hard disk for slim, high-capacity laptops: a wor

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/08/seagate2.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20091208/tc_pcworld/seagatetolaunchslimmerlaptopharddiskatces)Any advancement in commercial storage is big news 'round here so we're stoked to learn of a new ultra-thin hard disk from Seagate meant to slake our jones for super-slim portable computing. Seems that Seagate's already sampling a 7-mm high disk as part of its Momentus Thin series of drives scheduled to be launched at CES in January. Impressive, especially when you consider that just about every 2.5-inch SATA disk (http://www.engadget.com/tag/2.5-inch) we cover measures in at 9.5-mm high. Although Seagate doesn't give specifics, we assume the drive will be spinning a single platter. And knowing that dual-platter 2.5-inch disks currently max out at 640GB (or 320GB per platter (http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/09/wd-ships-2-5-inch-640gb-standard-9-5mm-height-laptop-drive/)), we expect Seagate to at least match that, but probably improve upon it via a boost in areal density. Feel free to offer your guess in comments until all is revealed on January 5th.Seagate's 7mm Momentus Thin 2.5-inch hard disk for slim, high-capacity laptops: a world's first (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/08/seagates-7-mm-momentus-thin-2-5-inch-hard-disk-for-slim-high-c/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).


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