Laptop computer storage is racing fast towards the 500G-byte level with Fujitsu becoming the third hard-disk drive maker to announce a drive at that capacity.
Fujitsu is accomplishing this capacity by combining three disk platters -- the magnetically-coated disks on which data is stored -- each with a 170G-byte capacity inside the drive. Hitachi, the first company to announce a 500G-byte drive, and Samsung Electronics are also using three platter designs. The third platter increases the thickness of the drive to 12.5 millimeters versus most other laptop drives, which have just two platters and are 9.5 millimeters thick.
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Fujitsu is accomplishing this capacity by combining three disk platters -- the magnetically-coated disks on which data is stored -- each with a 170G-byte capacity inside the drive. Hitachi, the first company to announce a 500G-byte drive, and Samsung Electronics are also using three platter designs. The third platter increases the thickness of the drive to 12.5 millimeters versus most other laptop drives, which have just two platters and are 9.5 millimeters thick.
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from what I have read, the samsung still uses 3 platters, but they've managed to get it to the standard 9.5mm size.
I've been stung 3 times and had fujitsu drives die on me.
That or people that figured 1GB would be enough for anyone in a hard drive.
I need one of these drives as an external drive. I like to carry my iTunes library and work files around with me, this would be ideal for me, Samsungs that is.
- People using it in the media business. That sometimes means enormous uncompressed files you're working with. HD movies => even worse.
- People using it to store warez and HD movie ISO's. You'd be surprised how quickly 25 GB Blu-ray's eat drive space.
- As a redundant storage for backups. Redundant hard drives are a pretty cheap and fast method of backing up data.
Hmm, there are probably more too.
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