Seagate announced that Acer is offering new mobile computers using Seagate Momentus 5400.6 hard drives – a 500GB 2.5-inch HDD with the fastest data transfer rates in its class, designed to meet explosive worldwide demand for high capacity home and business notebook computers.

Seagate Momentus 5400.6 500GB hard drives deliver the perfect combination of capacity, speed and durability to support rich digital gaming and other intensive multimedia applications that are the hallmark of the Acer Aspire consumer notebook PCs, and the blazing on-the-road performance and shock tolerance of the Acer TravelMate professional notebooks.

Momentus 5400.6 drives combine an areal density of 394 Gbytes per square inch – the highest ever for a notebook hard drive – with a data transfer rate of 87 Megabytes/second, the fastest available for a 5400-rpm notebook drive.