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While some laptop manufacturers have opted for 1.8-inch drives to help shave a few millimeters off their products, these new storage devices from Seagate are supposedly far cheaper to produce and should enable a new breed of entry-level thin notebooks and netbooks. Besides offering a slimmer profile, the 2.5-inch disks still perform at typical notebook speeds with a SATA II interface, 5,400RPM spindle speeds and an 8MB cache.
No prices were disclosed. The company is first offering the drive to OEMs and expects to ship them in January.
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Cool! 1,8" hdd are very expensive compared to their 2,5" brothers, if this 7mm thin 2,5" can in fact be a "far cheaper" in the end will be good for us, the customers.
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Nice :-) Now lets wait for some SSDs in that form factor :-)
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so now a notebook can have for than 3 hard disks or it just gonna make them lighter?
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Rapidhic said:
so now a notebook can have for than 3 hard disks or it just gonna make them lighter?
Quoting from the news "enable a new breed of entry-level thin notebooks and netbooks".
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Xclusiveitalian said:
its awesome i just wish these thin laptops were cheaper so i could actually get one
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cheap is good =)
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hello ...
looks nice, now must check the price!
cheers!
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