Wednesday, October 15, 2008

500 GB hard drive in Acer notebooks

Acer will incorporate 5400.6 hard drive with 500 GB storage capacity in its notebook. The hard drive has been launched by seagate and it reportedly has a data transfer rate of 87 Megabytes/second. This 2.5-inch 5400-rpm drive features Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology, a Serial ATA 3GB/second interface, and capacities of 500GB, 320GB, 250GB, 160GB and 120GB with 8MB of cache.

Campbell Kan, vice president, mobile computing business unit, Acer said, “Acer mobile PC customers want notebooks that deliver state-of-the-art capabilities to meet their needs for capacity, performance and durability. Seagate’s new 500GB Momentus hard drive enables Acer to deliver the richest multimedia experience and on-the-go robustness available for notebook computers.”

BanSeng Teh, vice president and managing director, Seagate Asia Pacific said, “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.”

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