First SSD and 7mm high HDD from Seagate

13th December, 2009 by adina
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Seagate has confirmed a change in its policy, after a historical fight against flash storage, by announcing the launch of the Pulsar solid-state drive. It is a 2.5-inch SATA drive, useful for notebooks but mainly targeted to servers, as well as other computers, where not only speed, but also longevity matters. The solid-state drive uses a single-level cell flash memory and has an 0.44 percent of failure rate per year while reaching peak read speeds of 240Mbps as well as peak write speeds of 200 Mbps. The drive is only 7mm (0.28 inches) high and is produced in capacities ranging up to 200GB. The Pulsar is already shipping for pre-made systems since September, but information about when stand-alone drives would be available is still missing.

The company also unveiled its plans of releasing the first-ever rotating hard drive having the same 7mm height, which should be presented at CES next month. This disk should be significantly thinner than actual 9.5mm rotating hard drives and this means thinner notebooks could be produced without having to recur to solid-state drives or 1.8-inch spinning disks. What Seagate hopes is that this drive will lead to ultraportables with a lower price by using less dense storage. Other details, including capacities, will be available only at the CES event.


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