Prepare Seagate hard drive Thin for Netbook

This era is now completely thin. Thinner, more attractive. And this also applies to storage.

That's why for the event CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is usually held in early U.S., Seagate is preparing a new hard drive is 25% thinner than current models. 7mm thick, so that it can reduce the thickness and weight of the notebook or netbook is now using a hard disk with a thickness of 9.5 mm or 12.5 mm.
Not yet known how much hard drive capacity is thin. However, this reportedly included in the line of Seagate's Momentus Thin and will be officially announced on January 5 next. Seagate also said that this new drive will "present the storage cost per gigabyte is smaller than the solid state and drive 1.8", and presents a new bid for a thin laptop entry-level. "

Currently, about 10 deri 9 netbook uses hard disk 2.5 ", 9.5 mm. The rest use a thinner drive (1.8 ") is a smaller capacity. According to IDC data, 49% of all hard drives are marketed in the third quarter of this year is the type of 2.5 ". Larger model, 3.5 ", over 44% market share. This is the first time the number of disk unit shipments type 2.5 "hard drive to surpass 3.5".