ICY News: Seagate releases industry's thinnest 2TB HDD

Seagate today announced it is shipping its highest density laptop drive, a standard 9.5mm thick model with up to 2TB of capacity.

"The M9T drive is also available in a 1.5TB model. Both the 2TB and 1.5TB drive models use a 6Gb/s SATA interface. While there are 2TB laptop drives today, they come in 12.5mm and 15mm form factors, which are around a half in inch thick. At 9.5mm, the M9T is about .37-in thick. Laptop drives are standard in 7mm and 9.5mm form factors." 

Desktops won't have any issues using them, however if your case does not have 2.5-inch bays or 2.5" to 3.5" converters.

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