Momentus

Features: Seagate Technology has started shipping

2.5-inch notebook PC disc drive built on perpendicular recording technology.






The company claims that the 2.5-inch disk drive built on perpendicular
recording technology is the first in the industry. “We are helping system

builders 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,” Country

Manager, Seagate India & SAARC, Rajesh Khurana said.






He said that their transition to perpendicular technology increases their
ability to meet the needs of growing customer base. “Delivering up to 160 GB of

capacity, the most available in a 2.5-inch disc drive, the Momentus family

continues to close the capacity and performance gap between desktop and

notebook PC hard drives to help meet growing demand for fast, high capacity

notebook computers,” he said.






Stating the IDC report Khurana said that the number of notebook PC users is
growing and demand higher capacity disk drives. IDC estimates that notebook PCs

with 80 GB or more of disk drive capacity will grow from less than 10 percent

of notebook shipments in 2004 to nearly 50 percent in 2006, providing

opportunities for high capacity mobile drives.






“According to IDC around 87 million units of notebooks might be shipped this year compared to 69.5 million in 2005,” said Khurana.





Perpendicular recording stands data bits on end on the disc, rather than flat
to the surface as with existing longitudinal recording, to deliver new levels

of hard drive data density and capacity. The new data orientation also

increases drive performance without increasing spin speed by allowing more bits

to pass under the drive head in the same amount of time.