Seagate Technology is preparing a major revamp of its disk drives, and is expected to introduce smaller physical and larger capacity drives in keeping with the rest of the market.
Brian Dexheimer, Seagate’s executive VP for sales and marketing, says, “We will be making announcements in the next 30 days around the entire range: 3.5 inch to sub-2.5-inch.” At the 10,000-rpm enterprise drive level, expect 73GB to 300GB capacity levels, using the existing 4-platter design.
The company will also announce new 7200-rpm drives. Dexheimer says to expect 120GB and 300GB+ capacity points. Dexheimer also confirmed that Seagate will enter the sub-notebook area where the current form factors are 1.8 inch, 1.0 inch, and 0.85 inch.
Seagate expects to make a formal announcment sometime in June.
Read more at PC World.
