Seagate started presenting great products lately like the DAVE project, the new encrypted HDD and the Savvio hard drive. They recently unveiled another such a product under the brand Momentus 7200.2.

The new device is a 2.5″ hard drive for laptops that uses perpendicular recording technology to achieve higher memory density therefore higher storage capacity for the same form factor. Having 160 GB as the maximum capacity the Momentus 7200.2 also offers a performance boost due to the 7200 rpm (compared to the regular notebook hard drives that offer 5400 rpm) and SATA high-speed interface (up to 3 Gb).

Another useful feature that can be added to the device is the acceleration sensor which can detect falls greater than 8″ (about 200 mm) high. Upon the fall detection the device will park the read/write heads achieving a better reliability for the stored data and the hard drive.

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