Seagate announces bevy of new drives

by Ryan Block posted Jun 7th 2006 at 10:39AM

Seagate's not holding out on us today, people. They've launched a whole slew of new drives, such as: the Momentus 5400 PSD (Power-Saving Drive), a 5,400RPM drive with 256MB non-volatile memory -- also known as a hybrid drive (which we've been hearing oh so much about); the Momentus 5400.2 FDE, their latest mobile drive, now with full disc AES encryption; the Momentus 5400.3, the largest yet laptop drive with 160GB of storage space on those tiny 2.5-inch platters; the Momentus 7200.2, a 160GB 7,200RPM 2.5-inch drive; the Savvio 10K.2 146GB 10k RPM 2.5-inch drive (small enough for a laptop, designed for a blade server); the ST18 1.8-inch 60GB perpendicular media-device drive; and, of course, a new 8GB Pocket Drive. Expect those to trickle out throughout the year, but we'll be paying especially close attention to our 160GB laptop drive (or, preferably, the 200GB Toshiba), oh yes we will.

[Via TG Daily]

Filed under: Peripherals, Storage

Tags: drives, hybrid drive, HybridDrive, micro drive, MicroDrive, seagate

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Ryan @ Jun 7th 2006 12:14PM

Hmm - 160GB laptop drives - nice!

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boe @ Jun 7th 2006 12:17PM

Any word on SCSI Ultra or SAS coming out soon that will be 500GB or more? 320 doesn't cut it any more.

Thanks

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hmurchison @ Jun 7th 2006 2:03PM

No word on SCSI size increases. Seagate announced a new Cheetah 15k 300GB drive that uses half the heads and platters. So the room is there now to come out with a larger drive but I doubt we see that until next year. SAS SFF drives are finally up to 146GB now with the Savvio 10k2 which is great. Here's to hoping the price is affordable. I've plenty of clients that want 146GB per bay but in a SAS SFF.

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Rob @ Jun 7th 2006 5:09PM

I'm hoping I'll be able to get hold of the 160GB drive within a few months. I'm considering buying the cheapest Macbook and then sticking the largest hard disk I can get hold of and 2GB of RAM in it. I think the 7200.2 is definatly something to keep your eye on, it's not often you see a 7200RPM notebook and you definatly don't see them fitted in notebooks as standard.

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Saqib Ali @ Jun 10th 2006 11:04PM

One interesting thing about the FDE drives is their capability of instant data deletion. All it requires is the change of the AES key, and the data can not be deciphered.

More info:
http://www.full-disc-encryption.com/lurker/list/fde.en.html

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