The thinnest hard drive you can buy today is just 5mm thick. However, in order to offer a drive that thin, storage is limited to a still healthy 500GB. Increase the thickness and you also increase the storage capacity and potential speed of the drive. The current capacity limit for a 2.5-inch drive is 2TB, but that required a 15mm thick drive until now.
Seagate is today claiming the world’s thinnest 2TB hard drive. The company’s Samsung HDD division has used the highest areal density available to fit 2TB of storage inside a drive just 9.5mm thick. The Samsung Spinpoint M9T will actually be available in both 1.5TB and 2TB options, and Seagate sees it being used in PCs, laptops, external hard drives, and even as a replacement games console drive.
Laptop manufacturers will certainly be interested in the new drive, especially as Ultrabooks have strict specifications to adhere to including a thickness no greater than 23mm. External storage will also benefit greatly from the new drive. We should see 2TB USB 3.0 drives that come close to 10mm thickness in the near future including their casing.
The M9T includes a SATA 6Gb/s interface and Seagate is promising very quiet operation due to the inclusion of its NoiseGuard and SilentSeek technology. The first product to use the M9T is set to be Samsung’s own portable external drives. It seems likely the M3 Portable drive will be upgraded to include the new drive. The M3 is currently 17.5mm thick, so that should come down significantly once fitted with an M9T.
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