If you’ve ever wanted an ultra-slim hard disk drive to go along with your MacBook Air or other supermodel-thin device, now’s your chance: the Seagate Seven is set to be the world’s thinnest HDD ever — measuring just 7mm thick.
To put that in perspective, that’s 01.mm thinner than even the slimline iPhone 6 Plus: an astonishing engineering feat, which also pulls off the difficult task of being a gorgeous piece of design. On top of that, it offers 500GB of storage, excellent speeds, and USB 3.0 connectivity.
What more could you ask for?
The Seven arrives to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the ST-506: the world’s first mass-produced 2.5-inch desktop hard drive, which gave users the ability to store files of up to 5MB total.
As far as statements about how far we’ve come since then, this is the perfect calling card for HDD technology circa 2015.
Seagate’s slimline portable hard disk will be available to hold all your movies, music and other files from mid-to-late January, priced at $99.99.
Via: The Verge
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
3 responses to “This gorgeous portable hard disk is slimmer than an iPhone 6 Plus”
While this is a great product, I think cloud storage is the future. The external hard drive, even the flash drive, are becoming a thing of the past. All my music is already in Google Play Music. While I can’t store many movies in the cloud yet, unless of course you buy it from iTunes or Google, it’s only a matter of time. Yes, it’s true that external drives are great for backing up and using off line, but, as I said, that’s changing too.
I use external drives a lot for big files and don’t want to use the cloud because the upload/download is a slow mess and I’m then at the mercy of the almighty ISP.
500GB is too small of a drive to invest in. 2TB is the base storage option I would consider. I do like the Seagate drives though. It’s what I’ve been buying recently. But for any of the configurations that aren’t “mainstream”, the price is too high. So I settle for the traditional 2 TB when it goes on sale. Would love to see what something like this could do with a SSD and Thunderbolt connectivity. (Perhaps nothing at all. I don’t really understand transfer speeds that well.)
Where are the SSD external drives? This is lipstick on a pig.