Seagate Releases World’s Fastest and Shock Tolerant Hard Drive

Leading hardware manufacturer Seagate announced Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB hard drive to deliver a  “perfect combination of capacity, speed and durability”. They will market the manufacture for Acer Aspire consumer notebook PCs, and the blazing on-the-road performance and shock tolerance of the Acer TravelMate professional notebooks.

The best part of the hard drive are areal density of 394 Gbytes per square inch – the highest ever for a notebook hard drive – with a data transfer rate of 87 Megabytes/second, the fastest available for a 5400-rpm notebook drive (as claimed).

We are pleased that Acer is delivering cutting-edge mobile computers with 500GB notebook hard drives from Seagate, with more personal computer makers to follow. Seagate continues to advance hard drive capacity, speed and durability, and our latest 500GB 2.5-inch drives and 1.5 Terabyte 3.5-inch drives provide the highest capacities on the planet to meet the growing need to create, store, share and protect digital content.

Other Key Features

1. Seagate’s notebook family is to use capacity-boosting Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology that combines a powerful Serial ATA 3GB/second interface and capacities of 500GB, 320GB, 250GB, 160GB and 120GB with 8MB of cache.
2. Moreover, to help protect data, the hard drive is built tough to withstand up to 1,000 Gs of non-operating shock and 350 Gs of operating shock, making it ideal for systems that are subject to rough handling or high levels of vibration.
3. For extra durability in mobile environments, Momentus 5400.6 hard drive are offered with G-Force Protection™, a free-fall sensor technology that helps prevent drive damage and data loss upon impact if a notebook PC is dropped. The sensor works by detecting any changes in acceleration equal to the force of gravity.

While the claims from Seagate are magnanimous, we can’t wait to have a look at the actual product and then give you a detailed review of the thing. Till then, take care.