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Mobile Hard Drives Finally Reach 500GB

post #1 of 10
1/3/08 at 10:07am
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Source: PC World

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Due out in February 2008, the $400 Travelstar 5K500 drive will dramatically expand the capacity possible in today's notebook PC designs.

Hitachi's announcement makes it the largest capacity mobile 2.5-inch hard drive. Previous high-water capacity marks for 2.5-inch drives included Fujitsu's 300GB drive and Toshiba's 320GB drive. Hitachi's jump to 500GB represents a whopping 36 percent increase in a single bound. (Hitachi also announced a 400GB version for $350.)
Too bad, I just upgraded to 250Gb in my m5750.
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post #2 of 10
1/3/08 at 10:41am
ASUS is dropping 2 of these things in their new laptop for a RAID 0 or RAID 1 config.


ASUS Unveils Terabyte Laptop
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post #3 of 10
1/3/08 at 10:46am
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Omg I Want That!
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post #4 of 10
1/3/08 at 3:43pm
That is a lot of Pr0n.
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post #5 of 10
1/4/08 at 7:17pm
I'll bet you have quite the collection.
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post #6 of 10
1/7/08 at 3:27am
I'll bet he does......
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post #7 of 10
1/7/08 at 11:37am
only downside is that the hitachi drive is 12.5mm thick, so most laptop users would not be able to upgrade to this particular model. there is however the samsung one that is supposedly due out in march that is the "standard" 9.5mm.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/s...-laptop-drive/
http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/ne...arddrive.phtml

it will be interesting to see how much of an improvement these will bring in terms of read/write performance.
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post #8 of 10
1/7/08 at 11:45pm
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Originally Posted by yee245 View Post

it will be interesting to see how much of an improvement these will bring in terms of read/write performance.
Yes it will be.
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post #9 of 10
1/9/08 at 1:21pm
Yeah the 9.5mm is the one that I'm looking for, not gonna buy it but I don't care about one that won't even fit into my system
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post #10 of 10
1/9/08 at 2:49pm
I was happy with my 160gig Momentus but i'd definatley like one of those beauties.
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