Seagate GoFlex Slim is the world’s thinnest external harddrive and despite a profile of only 9mm the drive houses 320GB data and offers good performance over the latest SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface. The harddrive builds on the Seagate 2.5″ Momentus Thin that operate at 7200 RPM and offers transfer speeds north of 110 MB/s.
Seagate has realized that more and more users equip its notebooks with relativel small SSDs. As computers become slimmer and slimmer the demands for external storage solutiosn increase, not just for space but also design.
Seagate GoFlex Slim will reply to this demand with its record thin design and high performance. With a 7200 RPM harddrive and USB 3.0 interface it can push performance far over USB 2.0. The harddrive have showed results over 114 MB/s, which dropped dramatically to 29MB/s with the USB 2.0 interface.
Seagate charges quite a premium price for the thin GoFlex Slim harddrive, 70€. The 320GB drive supports both PC and Mac with automatic backups. Seagate is planning a special version of GoFlex Slim that in a silver case to support Apple Time Machine with HFS+ filesystem.
