Computer's Trends

Seagate Technology recently announced Momentus Narrow attendance, a 2.5-inch hard drive which is claimed as a hard drive in the world's thinnest. Narrow Momentus may be another alternative to the storage media your laptop or netbook, but SSD & 1.8-inch drives. Narrow Momentus appreciated with much cheaper price than SSD & 1.8-inch drives, so the laptop market is likely the world will soon be filled with a cheap narrow notebooks.

Narrow Momentus comes with 7mm height, more narrow about 25% of the 9.5-inch drives used, which is about 9.5 mm. This slim drive has capacity 2, which is 250GB & 160GB with 5400RPM rotational speed. This storage has also been equipped with 8MB of cache & SATA connections. This drive will start market began in January 2010.


In addition, Seagate has been having some hard drive Momentus relatives in the traditional measure of 9.5 mm, ie Momentus 5400RPM & 7200RPM. There's several features on the hard drive, such as self-encryption, FIPS 140-2 certification, & free fall sensors. Currently, hard drives are available with capacities up to 640GB.

"Thin Momentus Drive promises to help computer makers in distinguishing factor in the format of mobile computing & the ability to better compete in a narrow laptop market & the netbook is rapid growing," said Dave Mosley, Vice President Division Sales, Promotion, & Lini Seagate's products. Seagate's commitment in helping OEMs & method integration partners to meet market demands for thinner laptops & they plan on expanding the storage capabilities for narrow notebooks in accordance with market demand continued to increase over the model that a thinner laptop."