News - Hitachi launches super-slim 7mm 500GB hard-drive

[HEXUS]

Manufacturer claims to be first to pack so much storage into the skinny form-factor.

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[jonny4288]

ditching the screws on the side for something that screws through the drive from top to bottom, we may see thinner drives again,

[aidanjt]

Credit card sized death star. The emperor will be pleased.

[semo]

offer a better gigabyte-per-cubic-millimetre ratio than any other SSD

yeah that's what you need for a portable device... efficient storage. errr netbooks are for surfing the net. You know what makes surfing the net more efficient? A quick IO subsystem (considering you stay away from Atoms).

The sooner these mechanical abominations disappear the more stress-free computing will be

[Biscuit]

yeah that's what you need for a portable device... efficient storage. errr netbooks are for surfing the net. You know what makes surfing the net more efficient? A quick IO subsystem (considering you stay away from Atoms).

The sooner these mechanical abominations disappear the more stress-free computing will be

I constantly end up fillling my 120GB laptop drive up... im still in the camp which prefers volume to speed. Not everyone has shifted over yet.

[semo]

I was talking about netbooks.

If you have a recent laptop then you may have a chance of having 2 SATA drives (either through a 2nd bay or the DVD drive).

[Biscuit]

na its a MBP - the perfect home for a drive such as this

[baius]

I constantly end up fillling my 120GB laptop drive up... im still in the camp which prefers volume to speed. Not everyone has shifted over yet.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=24768

Seagate seem to think you should be able to have both, Biscuit, but you knew that already.