Thin hard drives are making a splash in the market place. Coupled with increased sales in Ultrabooks, and the new thin iMacs, Western Digital and Seagate are gearing up for a battle. But thin isn't all there is to the new era of tiered level storage. Coupled with Apple's iCloud offering and fast Solid States Drives (SSD), users are in for a new era of active storage.
Western Digital (WD®) has created one of the
world's thinnest 2.5-inch Hybrid Hard Drive. At only
5 mm, the new Western Digital drives slashes the storage footprint by Almost 50% of traditional 2.5-inch Hard Drives.
Seagate has also been working hard on creating thin hard drives for their Momentus line of laptop and portable hard drives.
Momentus® Thin hard drives offer slim and lightweight drives that are feature rich for thin computing.
Tiered Storage is an enterprise storage concept. Software monitors which files are used most often and dynamically moves frequently used data to a faster, more suitable, class of storage. Tiering catagorizes blocks of information into fast, medium and slow while each tier increases in the size of the data that can stored.
Tier 1- Flash SSD [ Fastest, most expensive ]
Tier 2 - SATA HDD [ Lower cost, higher capacity ]
Tier 3 - Cloud Storage [ Lowest cost, highest capacity ]
