Mobile Hard Drives Hit 500GB

Mobile Hard Drives Hit 500GB

Daniel Fleshbourne on 03 January 2008 - 10:01 · 14 comments & 9763 views

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Notebook PC disk storage leaps into the stratosphere today, hitting the half-terabyte mark with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' announcement of a 500GB 2.5-inch mobile hard drive. 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.)

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(2 replies) #1 naap51stang on 03 Jan 2008 - 12:18

SSD's would come down in price if the HD manufacturers would quit bumping the storage capacity of these antiques,
and concentrate on SSD's.

#1.1 Wiggz on 03 Jan 2008 - 13:01

Quote - (naap51stang said @ #1)

SSD's would come down in price if the HD manufacturers would quit bumping the storage capacity of these antiques,
and concentrate on SSD's.

Don't talk tosh. Whilst SSD's are indeed the future, the fact that development of new designs based on old technology should cease is ridiculous! Hard Drives are standard and have will be for some time.

#1.2 +Shadrack on 03 Jan 2008 - 21:45

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Quote - (naap51stang said @ #1)

SSD's would come down in price if the HD manufacturers would quit bumping the storage capacity of these antiques,
and concentrate on SSD's.

Hard Disk Drive technology is still being improved upon. Saying it is "old technology" is a bit preemptive if you ask me. SSDs (Solid State Drives?) are the future, but HDD development can co-exist with SDD development. How exactly is SDD development being hindered do you think? By resources?

(3 replies) #2 jamesyfx on 03 Jan 2008 - 12:24

Well don't forget this drive has multiple platters, so it's size is nonstandard. And it Miiight not fit your laptop.

#2.1 Aq3e on 03 Jan 2008 - 13:20

So essentially instead of moving ahead with less platters and a smaller design, they are doing just the opposite? HA

#2.2 +xirtamdbml on 03 Jan 2008 - 14:51

Its a 2.5" hard drive therefore is will fit in a 2.5" drive bay! (the ones in laptops)

#2.3 KoDeXeRo on 03 Jan 2008 - 20:02

2.5" drives come in more than 1 size. There's the standard 9.5mm size and there's the 12.5mm size. Most drives come with 2 platters anyways, even the 9.5MM ones. That one just happens to use 3 platters (i think)

#3 whistlerxp on 03 Jan 2008 - 13:04

That hard drive is so big, it can fit Neowin's entire archive in.

(1 reply) #4 morficus on 03 Jan 2008 - 19:29

hhm.. that's nice (maybe I'll nab one when they are cheaper for my PS3)

how about we start investing some time and money in flash-based hard drives now plz

#4.1 sLm4ever on 03 Jan 2008 - 20:09

PStripla with half terabyte ... hmmm... nice

#5 soLoredd on 03 Jan 2008 - 23:02

Will this fit in a MacBook C2D?

#6 RAID 0 on 04 Jan 2008 - 04:14

YAY FOR MOBILE PORN!

#7 r3drum on 04 Jan 2008 - 10:55

Tit for tat. HDD crash at some point in time SSD burn out after awhile. Everyone has there cup of tea.

#8 Magallanes on 04 Jan 2008 - 12:45

but for $400, i think thats is better to have a external disk.

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