Seagate has a hard disk with 500GB storage announced that is intended for use in mobile devices. The company focuses in particular on use in Android tablets, where the hard drive is packaged in a housing that is only 5mm thick.
The new hard drive is by Seagate Ultra Mobile and must offer an alternative to the use of flash memory in devices such as tablets. According to the manufacturer offers the small hard disk for manufacturers of tablets, the possibility of more storage to build, without compromising on speed or reliability. Seagate also claims that there in the hard drive technology is built in which the effects of shocks against.
For manufacturers provides Seagate a ontwikkelaarskit with which it is possible to get the hardware working in Android tablets. It is unclear whether tabletfabrikanten who have shown interest in the Ultra Mobile hdd. The conscious hard drive, which is 5mm thick and 500GB storage, by the way, was already available for use in laptops. Seagate proposes a variant developed specifically for tablets. The hard drive has a sata 600 interface, running at 5400rpm and consumes an average of 1.7 W. The cache is 16MB large.
The use of hard disks in mobile devices such as tablets. Years ago, there were mp3 players with hard disk popular, but flash storage has that role already taken. Seagate also announced the Rescue and Replace, a service that helps users to recovering the lost data or a faulty hard disk replaced. The service can be for two, three or four years are ended, where the two-year subscription for a total price of $ 39.99.