Seagate has a 2.5″ hard drive for laptops announced that 5mm thick. The Laptop Ultrathin hard drive following Western Digital, which earlier this week also a hard disk drive announced with the same thickness.
The 5mm thin, and 93 grams of weight Seagate Laptop Ultrathin offers a storage capacity of up to 500GB. Also there is a 320GB version announced. According to the manufacturer, the hard drive with one platter, good for gross speeds up to 100MB/s. Further, it is the hard drive with 16MB cache and a sata-600-connector is present.
Data on the disk, according to Seagate automatically be encrypted by the so-called TCG Opal protocol. The power consumption of the drive is by Seagate rated at 1.4 W, while the idle-consumption at an average of 0.5 W would lie.
Seagate follows shortly on the announcement of the Blue models of Western Digital. Also these new WD hard drives are 5mm thin and focused on laptops. Just like the Laptop Ultrathin offers the 5mm thin WD drive has a gross storage capacity of 500GB.
