The market for storage media has never been hotter than now. New SSD drives show up at all times and prices fall. The world's largest hard drive manufacturer, Seagate has not previously had any SSD drives on the market. We reported yesterday about Seagate's new SSD drive "Pulsar", which is the company's first step onto the red-hot SSD market. But despite the SSD market is what everyone is talking about it is the mechanical hard drive is far from dead.

Now Seagate is expected to launch a new mechanical hard drive that is only 7mm thick and is part of their Momentus Thin series. The idea is that the disk should be used in the new ultra-slim notebooks and netbooks. There are no data on the storage capacity of Seagate's new drives, but they will be released January 5th, just in time for CES in Las Vegas, which opens the doors two days later.

Hard drive industry is focusing more and more of less, mechanical hard drives. During the third quarter was the first time that it sold more 2.5 "drives than 3.5" disks, and Seagate which has lost some of its competitors, Western Digital and Toshiba, something we now hope to reverse.