Seagate 7,200 RPM drive provides performance and high storage capacity

When it comes to notebook computers you have to give up something’s for the sake of power savings and portability. Typically this means slower processors and lower performing hard drives. For most users this isn’t an issue, but for gaming notebooks low performance is a big deal.

Seagate announced that Dell and Alienware will be the first notebook makers to ship notebooks that use the Seagate 320GB 7,200 RPM 2.5-inch hard drive. Dell is currently offering the hard drive in its line of XPS notebooks and Seagate says Alienware will be shipping systems using the drive soon.

The Momentus 7200.3 hard drive is available in 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 250GB and 320GB capacities. Seagate only introduced its higher capacity 250GB 5,400 RPM hard drive in January and wasted no time with the faster high capacity drives now shipping.

Seagate says that the hard drives have a 16MB cache and are offered with G-force protection that allows them to withstand up to 1000G of non-operating shock and 350Gs of operating shock. The drives are able to sense acceleration greater than that of the force of gravity and can lock the drive heads during a fall of as little as 8 inches to prevent contact with the disk platters. The interface for the drives is the Serial ATA 3 Gbit/second.

Source from DailyTech