Seagate ships 2.5-inch notebook PC disc drive

NEW DELHI: 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.

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