Seagate announced that it will reveal a hard disk drive substantially thinner than any of its current models. Most hard disks today are around 9.5 mm or 12.5 mm thick. Seagate's new drive will be a mere 7mm. The efficiency of hard drive data storage is accredited to the invention of magnetic data storage. This is the main factor making thinner drives a possibility. Magnetic data storage allows the drive to require just one storage platter instead of the standard two platters. The hard drive will be an appropriate addition to the Momentus Thin series and is currently being tested.
This announcement is great news for laptop manufacturers who are in a constant battle to engineer thinner and thinner laptops. The new drive will allow them to create currently impossibly thin laptop models. The capacity of the drive is still unknown, but Seagate did reveal that it will have a lower cost per gigabyte than both solid state and 1.8 inch drives.
Via ZDnet
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