Super-slim 500-Gbyte HDD fits mobile apps

The 5-mm-thick ST500LT035 hard-disk drive weighs in at a mere 3.3 oz, yet has a capacity of 500 Gbytes. The drive's idle power is just 0.48 W and active power is only 1.4 W.

The drive's average read seek time is less than 13 ms and sustained data transfer rate is 100 Mbytes/s over its SATA 6-Gbit/s interface. The unit improves performance with an intelligent caching design using 8 Gbytes of flash with Ultra Mobile HDD and Dynamic Data Driver software.