Big Jump For Tablet Storage: Seagate Intros 5mm Hard Disk For Tablets

cold fjord writes "ZDNet reports, 'Seagate on Monday took the wraps off a hard drive designed for tablets that brings 7x the storage capacity of a 64GB device with the same performance as a Flash drive. The drive, the Seagate Ultra Mobile HDD, uses software to boost performance. The idea is that Android tablet manufacturers will use the Seagate drive, along with the company's mobile enablement kit and caching software, to up the storage. The 2.5-inch drive is 5 mm thin and weighs 3.3 ounces. As for capacity, the drive has 500GB---enough for 100,000 photos and 125,000 songs.' More at The Wall Street Journal."

The hell is 7x a 64gb drive?

[solafide]

Couldn't we just say 500gb up front and be done with it, instead of having a bogus multiplier on a meaningless size? What's next, "this hard drive holds 30 Library of Congresses, which are each 6x the capacity of a regular library?"

Re:SSD or GTFO

[Anonymous Coward]

You drop your tablet a couple times a day? You'd better keep the fuck away from anything I own.

Re:no thanks

[SoCalChris]

At that point in time, the iPod had around 10 GB of storage, which may not sound like a lot, but a lot of other MP3 players at the time had something like 64 MB of storage.

Less space than a Nomad.

Re:The hell is 7x a 64gb drive?

[dpidcoe]

obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1257/ [xkcd.com]

Re:no thanks

[ArcadeMan]

About 8 billion dollars worth of stolen material [ted.com], if we're to believe the lies of RIAA accountants.

Re:no thanks

[jaseuk]

No, they were 5mm thin. It was an Apple product.

Jason.