Seagate develops world’s highest density mobile hard drive technology

NEW DELHI: Seagate Technology, a company dealing in storage solutions, has achieved a major milestone in a real density with a new hard disk that can offer as much as 2TB of capacity in a slim 7mm package.

In the final product form, it will give OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) freedom to design a new generation of mobile products that are thin, light-weight, fast, power-efficient and cost-effective.

“In an industry first, our engineers have been able to boost a real density to 1TB 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, Chief Technology Officer, Seagate.

“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 0.25TB SSD at a substantially lower cost,” Re added.

The new drive technology is the first to incorporate recording-subsystem components — head, media, preamp, channel — to achieve greater areal densities.

The new drive weighs 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 2TB of space, the drive can store 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,” Rydning added.