Seagate announce unbelievably thin and light mobile HDD
Seagate’s 2TB Mobile HDD is the world’s first 2TB 7mm hard drive. Not just that ,the Seagate Mobile HDD is also the lightest, fastest and most power efficient 7mm drive in the world. At just under 90 grams, its hard to believe that this is actually a hard drive, not a solid state drive. The end product is 25% lighter than previous generation mobile hard drives. There is a 1TB variant too.
“In an industry first, our engineers have been able to boost areal density to 1TB per platter in a 2.5-inch form factor, allowing our OEM customers the flexibility to design and build virtually any kind of laptop they can envision, with plenty of storage to boot,” said Matt Rutledge, Seagate’s senior vice president, client storage. “Laptops today must satisfy consumer demand for fast computing and high capacity storage capabilities on one hand, while also offering compelling designs and slim styling on the other. With the introduction of Seagate’s new Mobile HDD, laptop manufacturers no longer need to make tradeoffs between these seemingly competing mandates.”
“The drive’s high capacity, coupled with its ultra-slim, lightweight footprint, empowers our engineers to create truly ground-breaking, innovative system designs,” said JH Pan, director of SYS BG business operation department, ASUS. “The new Seagate Mobile HDD is a true game changer, enabling us to create high-capacity, thin and light laptops consumers crave at mass-market price points they can afford.”
“Data growth continues to explode and as such more and more data is being created and stored on mobile devices,” says Wentao Yang, vice president, global procurement, Lenovo. “Seagate is addressing this challenge head on by introducing the Mobile HDD, an innovative new drive that provides our designers with the freedom to create devices with high capacity in a form factor consumers demand— making it a win win for both of us.”
Key Features
- Drop in 1TB or 2TB without the weight of traditional laptop drives
- 25% lighter the previous generation
- Easy upgrade for most 7mm laptop designs
- No-hassle transition from 9.5mm
- Standard SATA drive mounting
- Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and FIPS 140-2 SED models available in the same 7mm design.2
- Government-grade encryption without performance degradation
- Ships with the Trusted Compudting Group (TCG) Opal protocol
- Instant Secure Erase technology3 that can instantly erase the security key data on your hard drive if needed, enabling secure disposal or repurposing of the SED
