#Seagate Expansion

Seagate has certainly come a long way since they released the first mass produced 5.25-inch HDD 35 years ago. And to celebrate this milestone, the storage giant has announced two new portable hard drives, one of which is the Seagate Seven which, as its name implies, is a svelte 500GB portable hard drive that only measures 7mm thick on the sides. Seagate has basically shaved as much as excess fat as possible to keep the Seven’s form factor to a minimum. Dubbed as the “world’s slimmest portable hard drive” by its maker, the Seagate Seven supports USB 3.0 and backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports. This hybrid drive by Seagate looks interesting -- it combines the large capacity of regular HDDs as well as the affordability together with the performance of fast SSDs. The Seagate Momentus XT comes in 500GB capacity with a 4GB SSD integrated with it (that's where the hybrid comes in). Seagate Momentus XT 500GB (ST95005620AS) 500GB HDD 4GB solid state SLC NAND flash storage SATA 3Gb/s 32MB cache 7200 rpm (spin speed) 300MB/s transfer speed The drive monitors which applications or files are frequently used or accessed by the system and it stores them in the 4GB NAND flash storage for better performance. Read more in our articles including "2TB External HDDs You Can Buy For Under Php5K" and "Seagate Seven Unveiled, 7mm-thin Portable Hard Drive".