To add fuel to a netbook-induced craze that has gripped the computer-buying public these holidays, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has released an ultra-thin 2.5-inch hard disk drive obviously targeted at netbooks and ultra-portables. Found this via NetbookChoice.com:
Seagate has announced a new hard-disk drive that it claims is the world’s thinnest at 7mm. The Seagate Momentus Thin drive will come in two capacity sizes (160GB & 250GB) and will mainly be targeted towards netbooks and ultra-thin notebooks. The Seagate Momentus will come with 8MB of cache, a SATA 3.0Gb/sec interface and a 5400RPM spin speed. The company claims that over 90 percent of netbooks use 2.5-inch HDDs that are 9.5mm in thickness.
Read the full article at NetbookChoice.com.
Look at Seagate’s official product page here.
As we have mentioned before, and because of space constraints on a netbooks form factor, Hard Drive space has never been one of the netbook’s major selling points. Technological advances like these would further the netbook’s future viability as a mainstream platform, as the space saved using this drive would equate to more flexibility for netbook manufacturers.
To date, the only way to counter this seeming problem with netbook storage space is a very efficient data back-up plan. An external hard drive can be a netbook owner’s best friend — it provides not only extra space, but a secure storage alternative for documents and files that you just can’t lose. See MacPCWiz‘s list of top external hard drives here. Another alternative for netbook users would be a USB DVD burner — burning data back-ups to blank optical media is also a very good option.
