Scotts Valley, California-based Seagate Technology shipped their latest tiny, high-powered offering in the form of the Momentus. The new drive touts Seagate’s perpendicular recording system. This takes the notebook drive capacity to 160 gigabytes, up from the 120 gigs.
Seagate Turns Storage On Its Side
The hard drive company’s perpendicular technology offers 160 GB of storage, which will make laptops even more attractive to buyers.
Seagate Gives Laptops Big Storage Increase
Consumers who have been favoring notebook computers over desktop machines now have more reason to choose a laptop.
Seagate Introduces Perpendicular 2.5-Inch Disc Drive
Seagate Technology has announced the world’s first 2.5-inch disc drive built on perpendicular recording technology The 160GB Momentus notebook has 25% more capacity than the largest capacity notebook drive currently on the market.
Seagate Unveils 6Gb One-Inch Hard Drive
Seagate is shipping the industry’s highest capacity 1-inch hard drive, a new 6GB model of its popular 1-inch ST1 Series hard drive for handheld applications.
Hitachi, Seagate Introduce 1-Inch, 6 Gigabyte Drives
Escalating what some call the “mini-drive war,” competitors Seagate and Hitachi separately introduced new 1-inch drives, both of which boast higher capacities.