Beginning of the end of traditional HD's...

Heliospherez · 3 Mar 2013 at 11:35

Announced yesterday that Seagate will cease producing traditional 2.5" 7200rpm (mechanical only) Hard drives at the end of 2013.

http://uk.hardware.info/news/33720/seagate-halts-production-of-7200-rpm-mobile-hdds

Looks like they will be concentrating on Hybrids only for their 2.5" lineup - with the mass storage traditional drives still used in server arrays and data centres.

One report is suggesting that more and more people are now adopting SSD for their main internal drive in their laptops.... and now that we have faster USB and thunderbolt interfaces, it makes sense to have all your important stuff on a slow mechanical external.

At last the rest of the world is beginning to catch up with the majority of the OCUK forum members...

nick.lidgett · 3 Mar 2013 at 11:45

I also belive the sata 6gbs is nearing the end i read this somewhere irc

Hagar · 3 Mar 2013 at 22:53

I last used a mechanical drive in my netbook about a year ago. It now runs nicely on a 120GB sata 2 SSD and is backed up on my main desktop system.

With 240Gb drives now the ones to get it makes perfect sense to use these as the main drive in a laptop and ditch the mech drive when it is due or becomes noisy.

nutcase · 4 Mar 2013 at 08:03

nick.lidgett said:
I also belive the sata 6gbs is nearing the end i read this somewhere irc

Near the end? It's relatively new.

Armageus · 4 Mar 2013 at 12:37

Heliospherez said:
Looks like they will be concentrating on Hybrids only for their 2.5" lineup - with the mass storage traditional drives still used in server arrays and data centres.

Nope... that is not what is happening at all.

7200rpm drives are being dropped as they are not a huge performance benefit in laptops / especially when traded off on heat/power consumption versus SSDs which are now mainstream for performance.

Budget laptops will remain with 5400rpm drives for a cost point of view, Bigger laptops than can hold 2 Drives will likely get a 5400rpm high capacity storage drive alongside an SSD. And most performance laptops will get SSDs.

Hybrid drives are merely a way of creating a high capacity drive that can also perform - these may be an option for performance laptops that need the high capacity,

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/04/seagate_momentus_hybrids/
Explains it a bit better

Yaayuh! · 4 Mar 2013 at 12:59

Begining of the end of small computer hard drives you mean.
We're talking purely for the small computer market here because desktop hard drives are going to be around for quite some time yet.

NirK · 5 Mar 2013 at 05:56

NOTEBOOK DRIVES. Not Desktop.

When you can get a 2TB SSD for £100... That will be the end of desktop mechanical drives.