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The latest collaboration between two renowned brands, Acer and Seagate, has produced an outstanding improvement in notebook hard disk capacity, up to 500GB for new Acer laptops.  I, for one, am glad that Seagate has managed to meet the increasing demand for higher hard disk capacity on laptops.  As a frequent laptop user, I know how limiting it is to find out that I don’t have enough free space to meet my excessive multimedia needs.

The new 2.5-inch Seagate Momentus 5400.6 hard disk offers many great features including an overall areal density of 394 Gbytes per square inch.  For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the term, areal density is a parameter used to gauge the amount of bits that can be stored per unit length, area or volume.  Simply, it is always better to have a larger value for the areal density so you can store more data.  Most laptops in the current market only offer less than 200Gbytes per square inch of areal density.  In fact, most of the laptops barely reach 100Gbytes per square inch.

Let’s talk about the data transfer speed of the hard disk; this hard disk has a remarkable data transfer rate of 87 Megabytes per second.  That is faster than any other existing laptops operating on at 5400-rpm.  Of course, Seagate didn’t forget to include perpendicular recording technology which provides more than three times the value for storage density of conventional longitudinal recording. 

Durability-wise, Seagate has implemented a free-fall sensor called “G-Force Protection” to curb data losses upon a sudden fall.  The drive can handle up to 350 Gs when it is operating and up to a 1,000 Gs when not operating. 

Usually, these heavy specs would result in a power-sucking notebook that runs very hot.  Judging from my current notebook’s condition, even with a lot less incredible features, it tends to burn up so easily (and, of course, I don’t mean that literally!).  Rest assured as Seagate has firmly guaranteed that the drive is power-efficient.  In a nutshell, I think that the combination of high capacity, swift speed, and excellent durability makes this hard disk very interesting and will get me to check out the Acer notebooks that feature them.

Via [Seagate]