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Seagate Launches 160GB Perpendicular Hard Drive

January 18th, 2006

Seagate announced on Monday that it is shipping the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 - its new 2.5-inch notebook PC drive featuring perpendicular recording, a technology that permits greater data density. In fact the drive packs in 132GB per square inch, creating a 160GB total capacity. The Momentus 5400.3 currently uses Ultra ATA 100 connectivity.

Seagate won’t stop there though. They plan to incorporate perpendicular recording into their 1 inch and 3.5 inch ranges as well by the end of 2006.

Momentus 5400.3 drives were built to sustain 350 G’s of operating shock (900 G’s while powered down) and are covered by the company’s 5-year warranty.

“Seagate is helping system builders meet growing demand for notebook PCs with desktop capabilities by delivering 2.5-inch disc drives that provide some of the industry’s highest levels of power efficiency, ruggedness, performance and capacity,” said Karl Chicca, Seagate senior vice president and general manager, Personal Storage. “Our transition to perpendicular technology increases our ability to meet the needs of our growing customer base.”

“The trend is clear: the number of notebook PC users is growing, and they demand higher capacity disk drives,” said John Rydning, IDC’s research manager for hard disk drives. “IDC estimates that Notebook PCs with 80GB or more of disk drive capacity will grow from less than 10% of notebook shipments in 2004 to nearly 50% in 2006, providing opportunities for high-capacity mobile drives such as Seagate’s new Momentus 5400.3.”

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