Seagate drives ahead to 1.5T

Stephen Withers
Friday, 11 July 2008 12:28

Business IT - Technology

All variants include free-fall detection that can park the heads to prevent a crash in the event of a fall from as little as 8in (20cm).

While solid state drives are becoming popular for notebooks and subnotebooks such as the Asus Eee PC and Apple's MacBook Air due to their light weight, low power consumption and mechanical ruggedness, they are currently too expensive where large amounts of storage are involved.

The new Momentus drives are scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter of 2008.

"Organizations and consumers of all kinds worldwide continue to create, share and consume digital content at levels never before seen, giving rise to new markets, new applications and demand for desktop and notebook computers with unprecedented storage capacity, performance and reliability," said Michael Wingert, Seagate executive vice president and general manager of Seagate's personal compute business.