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Guru3D.com » News » Seagate Halts 7200rpm 2.5inch Drives

Seagate Halts 7200rpm 2.5inch Drives

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/04/2013 09:25 AM | source: | 5 comment(s)
Seagate Halts  7200rpm 2.5inch Drives

Interesting, Seagate Technology, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of hard disk drives, plans to cease production of mobile hard drives with 7200rpm spindle speed late this year as the mainstream market demand will shift to different products, such as solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs). The company will continue to offer 5400rpm HDDs for value notebooks. “We are going stop building our notebook 7200rpm hard disk drives at the end of 2013,” said David Burks, director of marketing and product management at Seagate Technology, during a conversation with X-bit labs. Mobile hard disk drives with 7200rpm spindle speed offer a bit higher performance compared to hard drives with 5400rpm, but are still dramatically slower than various solid-state hybrid drives or solid-state drives (SSDs).

 As a result, those, who need maximum performance and cares about battery life, have been choosing notebooks with SSDs for years now, whereas those who required capacity, performance and moderate price do not really care about actual performance.  

With the introduction of third-generation solid-state hybrid drives later this year, Seagate will position them for performance and capacity demanding end-users. To further stimulate customers to utilize SSHDs, the company will cease building hard drives with 7200rpm spindle-speed in 2.5” form-factor.

Even though Seagate will stop manufacturing 7200rpm mobile HDDs late this year, they will unlikely leave the market any time soon as there will be a lot of units stocked to fulfill demand from various customers.







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#4543683 Posted on: 03/04/2013 06:20 PM
Historical milestone right there. SSD starting to kill the need to certain HDDs!

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#4543712 Posted on: 03/04/2013 06:51 PM
I see western digital's 7200 rpm 2.5" going up in price now. Glad I already got my 500GB 7200 in my PS3.

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#4543900 Posted on: 03/04/2013 09:20 PM
Bad :(

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#4543912 Posted on: 03/04/2013 09:27 PM
While SSDs are undoubtedly faster, due to the price premium for them I still see 7200 rpm HDDs and being a common market necessity.

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#4543930 Posted on: 03/04/2013 09:40 PM
of the 3 Laptops that I have that have a total of 9 HDs 3 are SSD main drive others are still Raid Seagate 2.5 7200 drives.... hmmm time to order a few for stock i guess incase I need them havent had the best luck with raided western digital 7200 black drives but then always getting the seagate ones for cheaper.....

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