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Seagate Develops World's Highest Density Mobile Hard Drive Technology

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Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it has achieved a major milestone in areal density with a new hard disk that can offer as much as 2 TB of capacity in a slim 7 mm package. This achievement is significant because in final product form it will give OEMs freedom to design a new generation of elegant mobile products that are extremely thin and stylish, light-weight, fast, power-efficient and cost-effective.

"In an industry first, our engineers have been able to boost areal density to 1 TB per platter in a 2.5-inch form factor, which will give OEMs the flexibility to design and build virtually any kind of mobile device they can envision, with plenty of storage to boot," said Mark Re, Seagate's chief technology officer. "Combining new mechanical firmware architectures, with state of the art heads, media and electronic design, this technology is a real game changer- providing four times more capacity than a 0.25 TB SSD at a substantially lower cost."

Featuring cutting-edge storage technology, the new drive technology is the first to incorporate recording-subsystem components-head, media, preamp, channel-to achieve even greater areal densities, well ahead of competitive offerings. Its advanced, high-spatial efficiency mechanics deliver lightweight, low acoustics and strong mechanical robustness capable of new levels of drive stability even when subject to intense shock and vibrations.

The new drive weighs just 3.17 oz., and is 25 percent lighter than the previous generation of Seagate's mobile hard drive products. Smaller drives free up valuable space in a mobile device to accommodate additional designed-in features, such as bigger batteries, more memory and better air circulation. With up to 2 TB of space, the drive can also enable affordable high capacity storage- storing more than 500,000 songs, 320,000 photos, 240 hours of high definition video or 26 hours of 4K ultra-high definition content.

"The notebook PC continues to be an important productivity tool, especially for content creators who are producing an enormous volume of data," said John Rydning, IDC's research vice president for hard disk drives. "Seagate's new ultra-mobile HDD technology is ground breaking for Seagate and the HDD industry, making it possible for notebook PC users to have generous storage capacity in a thin and light PC."

While the new areal density milestone was achieved in a traditional HDD format, Seagate is also examining a hybrid format as well. A Hybrid version would combine NAND flash with Seagate's proprietary learning algorithms, to deliver supreme performance and a richer consumer experience at a much lower cost than comparable solid state drives.

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I hope new hybrids will come with more than crappy 8GB of SSD part. And that plates will spin at more than crappy 5400 RPM. So it's actually a high performance hybrid drive, not some thing that works fine in benchmarks for reviews, but falls short when you start filling such tiny cache with massive game data. Of more games, not just one they use in tests... I'm using eBoostr as software caching solution and I'm using 66% of 32GB SSD cache. With over 95% cache hit ratio. That's already more than twice as much as they stick to existing hybrid drives.
 
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Been waiting on this, there is not enough competition in 2 TB 2.5" market. I hope the reliability is the same as for HGST's Travelstar series.
 
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Seagate fuck me with a warranty on my Samsung drive, so I hate them. Fuck you, Seagate!
Will wait 2TB 2.5" WD Blue drive.
 
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Do they have a drive ready to sell or did they just announced that they have the technology - and a couple of prototypes - to create a final consumer product in the near future?
 
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