Seagate claims fastest 500G notebook drive

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:34

Business IT - Technology

Seagate's claim was made in an announcement that Acer had announced new TravelMate notebook computers using the 500 G Momentus 5400.6.

"Acer mobile PC customers want notebooks that deliver state-of-the-art capabilities to meet their needs for capacity, performance and durability," said Campbell Kan, vice president of the mobile computing business unit at Acer.

"Seagate's new 500 G Momentus hard drive enables Acer to deliver the richest multimedia experience and on-the-go robustness available for notebook computers."

"We are pleased that Acer is delivering cutting-edge mobile computers with 500 G notebook hard drives from Seagate, with more personal computer makers to follow," said BanSeng Teh, vice president and managing director, Seagate Asia Pacific.

"Seagate continues to advance hard drive capacity, speed and durability, and our latest 500GB 2.5 in drives and 1.5 T 3.5 in drives provide the highest capacities on the planet to meet the growing need to create, store, share and protect digital content."

Although solid state drives are making an impact in netbooks and some notebooks, hard disks still deliver high capacity at a price that's affordable for mainstream products.

The end of rotating magnetic storage has been predicted for years, but steady advancements such as the switch to perpendicular recording has allowed companies such as Seagate to pack more bits into a small space while maintaining industry-leading prices. Solid-state storage may have taken over the low end (eg thumb drives and small-capacity music players such as the iPod nano), but it looks like being a few years before we buy our last hard disk based notebooks.