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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.

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Rumor has it that Seagate is dropping the brown/orange colorway on its FreeAgent external hard drives and refining it to a more futuristic look (as pictured above).  The bigger drive is most likely the FreeAgent Desktop, the standard desktop drive.  To its right is probably the FreeAgent Go, or another iteration of Seagate’s portable drive line.  From the picture, it is evident that there is the inclusion of a new docking station, which will help show off the eye candy element of the drive.  Not only will the drives shed their brown exterior, they’ll be available in grey, black, silver and others, including red, green, gold, and pink.  For Mac users, it is especially exciting to hear that at least one of the drives will be formatted for instant use in OS X, so

Windows users will have to format the drive in order to use it. 

Look for a formal announcement for these external hard drives sometime next month.

Via [Engadget]

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Seagate has announced that Dell XPS laptops will soon be shipping with their Momentus 7200.3 hard drives, and they will also incorporate the same technology on Alienware laptops soon. The Momentus 7200.3 hard drive was designed for on-the-go worker and touts a low power consumption and overall reliable performance. This new Seagate 2.5-inch hard drive gives out up to 320GB of storage capacity and boasts a fast Serial ATA 3.0 Gbit/second interface. It spins at a 7200-rpm speed and has a 16MB cache. In addition the hard drive is equipped with G-Force Protection that was built to withstand up to 1000Gs of non-operating shock and 350Gs of operating shock and free-fall sensor technology that helps to prevent drive damage and data loss even when your notebook gets dropped.

The Momentus 7200.3 will be offered in 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 250GB and 320GB storage capacities. These new Seagate hard drives also consumes less energy and will only be a $46 upgrade on the XPS M1730 notebook.

Read [CNW Group] Via [Engadget]

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Early Thursday, viewers of Seagate’s website were shocked and exited to find the details for a 750GB 7200.10 Barracuda hard drive in an innocent looking PDF document.

Many of these details cannot be confirmed from Seagate’s website now, but the PDF which can be found at DailyTech, talks of buffers of 16MB and 8MB, 7200RPM spindles and an average seek time of 4.16ms.

“Seagate representatives have told us that the information posted was ‘very premature’ and was not be posted on the website for several weeks.“

Read [DailyTech]

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