The first post for this year goes to the latest slim beauty; the Seagate 7-mm thick 500GB hard drive.  The HDD is being launched to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Seagate Technology, an American data storage company. (see video after cut)

At just 7-mm thick, Seagate calls its new Seven the slimmest 500GB USB 3.0 hard disk drive available. That’s thinner than an iPhone 6 Plus only with physical platters spinning at incredible speed inside of an all-steel chassis that hints at the mechanics within. Indeed, this is the world's first mass produced 5.25-inch hard disk for PCs.

Other than Seagate telling us it’s based upon the 5-mm Angsana drive, the company isn’t giving us much in the way of detail. But that’s ok, "the deed has been done" :)