Seagate Says Its New Laptop Hard Drives Are The Fastest Ever
One of them is the world’s fastest, thinnest and lightest 2TB drive, while the other has a ridiculous five terabytes of space.
One of them is the world’s fastest, thinnest and lightest 2TB drive, while the other has a ridiculous five terabytes of space.
Server in a lunch box.
Of course, helium is not cheap — and neither is the technology.
The designed-for-enterprise drive will be available this summer.
Now two-and-a-half millimeters thinner. Count 'em, go on.
It's an ultra-thin 500GB laptop drive into an equally svelte seven-millimetre thick housing that still makes room for a built-in USB port.
Between all the videos I've shot and all the pictures I've taken and all the high-quality music and movies I've downloaded for years, I could easily fill this baby up.
My computer takes too long to boot up. Around a minute and 18 seconds, to be precise(r). Which is why I want a solid state drive. But I don't want to pay £400 for 256 gigs of storage. Enter Seagate's Momentus X Hybrid drives, which promise near-SSD speeds, but with giant HDD storage—and not-so-giant prices.
You might not have come across Seagate's Momentus XT hybrid hard drive tech yet; you're unlikely find it in an off-the-shelf notebook. But, the spinning platter plus solid-state flash promises the best of both worlds -- speed and large storage.
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