Seagate Launches World's Thinnest Portable HDD

From DailyTech: Seagate has announced a new product today that it claims is the world's slimmest portable external HDD. The product is called the GoFlex Slim USB 3.0 Drive.

The drive sells for $99.99 and is only 9mm thick, which makes it 38% thinner than the current crop of GoFlex portable HDDs. To put the 9mm number in perspective, that is about the thickness of a pencil. The GoFlex Slim is thin enough to be carried in a pocket or purse without adding much bulk. Inside the thin portable HDD is a 7200rpm 320GB HDD.

“The continued growth of personal digital media stores, our increasingly mobile lifestyles and the continued proliferation of mobile devices are driving the demand for slimmer, more portable storage solutions,” said Patrick Connolly, vice president and general manager of Retail at Seagate. “Netbooks and slim laptops are great for consuming media, but are limited when it comes to creating and storing high-definition films and photos. With the benefit of using Seagate’s Momentus® Thin drive, the 9mm GoFlex® Slim ultra-portable hard drive breaks through these boundaries—delivering a beautiful, ultra-slim, lightweight storage solution to complement existing mobile computing devices so they can enjoy even more of the content they love, anywhere they want.”

The Slim portable HDD is offered in a version formatted for Windows computers and can be had in a version that is formatted and ready to go for Mac computers as well. The Mac version of the HDD is compatible with Time Machine and it will also sell for $99 and land in May. The Windows version is available now and users could always reformat the Windows version for Mac use.

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