WD Creates ‘World’s Thinnest’ 2.5-inch Mobile Hard Drive

In the hybrid mobile hard drive space, the dominant player has been Seagate – thanks to the fact that it has little competition. In fact, its leading competitor in the desktop and mobile space, WD, has remained quiet on this front. Until now, that is. And what better way to enter the fray than to one-up your competitor at the same time? With WD’s claims, that will happen once these drives hit the market.

WD’s Green Mobile Hard Drive

You see, while Seagate’s current hybrid drives, Momentus XT, carry a thickness of 9.7mm, WD’s just-announced hybrids slim that down to 5.5mm. On the standard mobile drive front, the previous “thinnest” was 7mm. Unfortunately, this is about all of the information we’re given. As you might expect, WD hasn’t admitted to a release date or pricing yet, but it has mentioned that the first drives will come in 500GB flavors.

More information is set to be unveiled on Thursday, during the company’s Investor Day, and hopefully that will include a revealing of some photos, as they are oddly absent from the press release. Nonetheless, if Seagate doesn’t pull out a similar product soon, WD might find itself the de facto choice for the thinnest notebooks out there – for those that want to include mechanical storage, that is.