When it comes to new technology, it’s easy to get stuck in “black and white” thinking. Something is either totally new and paradigm-shifting, or obsolete and out-dated.
The truth is that the best ideas are those that are both incremental and innovative, a change to existing technology that changes the rules.
The Rise of Slim Computing
Take laptop storage, for example. Since MacBook Air was announced, industry pundits have said the future of mobile computing is Thin, and therefore disk drives are obsolete. For netbooks and ultraportables in particular, the future is SSD, and it starts now. Right?
Nope. Too expensive.
Then we must need a totally new hard drive form factor. 1.8″ drives are a dramatic miniaturization and will replace today’s 2.5″ drives in mobile applications, right?
Nope. Can’t hold enough content.
As a matter of fact, most thin notebooks and netbooks use standard 2.5″ hard drives, because they are the only solution that provides enough capacity at a price point that works for mobile computing. If only they were thinner…
Introducing Momentus Thin
Rather than give up on today’s technology, Seagate has transformed it with the launch of Momentus Thin. Momentus Thin preserves the best of 2.5″ drive technology – namely reliability, high capacity and affordability – while squeezing the drive width 26% to 7mm.
Relentless improvement of existing technology often bests exciting but immature new technology. Seagate should know. The half-century-old hard drive industry has been built on just such focused innovation.
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You wrote that 1.8″ drives can’t hold enough content. The largest Momentus Thin drive on your site holds 250 GB, but Toshiba makes a 1.8″ drive that holds 320 GB. How is it that 1.8″ drives don’t hold enough to replace 2.5″ drives but the Momentus Thin does? Is it really about thickness?
2.5″ drives by definition have the potential to hold more data than 1.8″ drives, all else equal. That’s because the “length” of the drive determines the area available for data storage on the media.
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