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Seagate have announced their latest mobile hard-drive, the Momentus 5400 PSD. As the name suggests, these have a rotation speed of 5400 RPM and the "PSD" stands for Power Savings Drive. With the introduction of these drives, Seagate hopes to help promote better efficiency in notebook computing, an important factor for those who are looking for the best battery-life and supreme power consumption.
The drives implement a 256MB flash memory chip that is not far different from what you'd find in your flashed-based thumb drive. The premise is simple. To keep speeds high and power low, the hard-drive itself will swap information with this flash chip as needed. Instead of draining all of the power from faster disk-access, the flash chip uses lower power and in effect, proves more efficient. Not surprisingly, Windows Vista is the focus here, thanks to it's ReadyDrive technology. It's a known fact that Vista drains a mobile battery faster than XP did, so drives like these may help to make up the difference. Of course, we won't know this for sure until reviews surface. You can read the full press release below.
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SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - October 8, 2007 - Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world’s number one hard drive maker, today launched a new era of digital storage by shipping in volume hybrid notebook disc drives that combine disc storage with flash memory to deliver ultra power efficiency, faster boot-ups and greater reliability for the exploding laptop PC market.
Source: Seagate Press Release
The drives implement a 256MB flash memory chip that is not far different from what you'd find in your flashed-based thumb drive. The premise is simple. To keep speeds high and power low, the hard-drive itself will swap information with this flash chip as needed. Instead of draining all of the power from faster disk-access, the flash chip uses lower power and in effect, proves more efficient. Not surprisingly, Windows Vista is the focus here, thanks to it's ReadyDrive technology. It's a known fact that Vista drains a mobile battery faster than XP did, so drives like these may help to make up the difference. Of course, we won't know this for sure until reviews surface. You can read the full press release below.
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SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. - October 8, 2007 - Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world’s number one hard drive maker, today launched a new era of digital storage by shipping in volume hybrid notebook disc drives that combine disc storage with flash memory to deliver ultra power efficiency, faster boot-ups and greater reliability for the exploding laptop PC market.
Source: Seagate Press Release