Can Seagate steer hybrid hard drive market?
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Seagate, the industry’s largest producer of hard drives, has finally started shipping its first batch of hybrid hard drives for notebook PCs. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company is expected to announce Monday that the Momentus 5400 PSD hybrid hard drive will be shipping in volume in notebook PCs.
The 2.5-inch hybrid drive is a 160GB drive with 256MB of flash memory. Adding flash chips to the mix has produced notebooks that can get 50 percent better battery life, according to Seagate. Seagate says its hybrid drives will sell for an approximately 20 to 30 percent premium over its standard hard disk drives. A 160GB hard drive from Seagate, for example, costs approximately $130.
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