Seagate officially confirms the launch of the Momentus Thin

20th December, 2009 by Adina
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Seagate has confirmed the launch of the thinnest ever hard drive, the Momentus Thin. The hard drive is just 7mm thick, which means it is much thinner than the 9.5mm and 12mm thick common rotating storage. Using such thinner hard drives allows notebook designers to imagine thinner systems without having to use more solid-state drives that are more expensive or 1.8-inch spinning disks with lower capacity.

The 2.5-inch disks are running at typical speeds for notebooks and use a SATA II interface and 8MB of cache memory. The spinning speed is 5,400 rpm. Seagate has only sacrificed the capacity of the hard disks, by reducing it to 160GB and 250GB for the tow versions available, as the reduced size does not allow higher capacities.

Seagate is prioritizing its offering of the hard drives to OEMs and plans to ship them next year in January rather than selling them to private customers. The systems using these drives should be less expensive and thinner than currently available ones. The price for the 250GB versions would be $50.


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