Seagate ships single-platter, 1.8-inch, 60GB hard drive

by Cyrus Farivar, posted Jan 8th 2007 at 10:45AM

Seagate announced late Sunday that it would immediately begin shipping its new Lyrion hard drive -- the corporate moniker for its single-platter 60GB 1.8-inch hard drive -- worldwide. The drive is only 5 millimeters (0.19 inches) thick and gets its write on using that snazzy perpendicular tech we've been hearing so much about. Also available in a 30GB size, the Lyrion includes "free fall protection" that will power down the motor and keep the heads away from the platter if the drive senses that it is indeed in peril. (We don't suggest that you test this feature.) We're not sure how much these drives will sell for, nor when we might start finding them embedded in various media players. But seriously -- iPod pico, anyone?

Filed under: Storage

Tags: 1.8-inch, CES, lyrion, seagate, single-platter

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kev @ Jan 8th 2007 10:52AM

Put a production date and a price on it and then we'll talk.

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Nick @ Jan 8th 2007 11:48AM

This should be nice in a HD videocamera...

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Robert @ Jan 8th 2007 3:03PM

ZUNE

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Ryan @ Jan 8th 2007 6:30PM

hmm... here's an interesting consideration: I think most hard drives of the laptop variety and smaller are shipping with some form of the freefall - shock protection system that shuts down the drive if it senses a freefall. There are already quite a few HDD camcorders on the market.. what happens if you take one of these camcorders on a rollercoaster, or skydiving? Will you drop massive amounts of frames (or just not record video at all) because the hard drive thinks it's about to have an impact with the ground?

a related question: on those hard drive camcorders...can anyone tell me if they record direct to the hard drive...or is there a flash memory buffer that allows them to only spin up the hard drive when they need to dump the buffer, thus saving power?

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Bill Wilson @ Jan 9th 2007 9:27AM

Good question about the roller coaster Ryan!

Maybe they will have to incorporate an override switch.

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TJ @ Jan 10th 2007 2:14AM

not too amazing - the press release with the 60GB samsung being in the PSP2 was single platter using perpendicular tech. w/e

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