Hitachi Announces 7,200-RPM Mobile Drive

[Shivatron]

Finally, we're making headway to remove the biggest bottleneck in notebook/tablet performance: the hard drive. ExtremeTech has an article here.

 

[bharok]

More at Google News

In this CNET article they said,

"Later this month, the San Jose, Calif.-based unit of the Japanese electronics giant plans release a 60GB 2.5-inch-diameter hard drive that uses the new "femto" slider. The drives will run at 7,200 revolutions per minute, faster than competing 2.5-inch notebook drives on the market, which generally run at 5,400 rpm, the company said. The increase in speed translates to a 15 percent improvement in data transfer and 20 percent reduction in average seek time.

Later in the summer, IBM will incorporate the 7K60 into notebooks, and several other major manufacturers should follow suit, Hitachi said. "

Hopefully IBM will add these new drives to the T40 by August so I can get it for when I start college.

 

[Shivatron]

Originally posted by: bharok
Hopefully IBM will add these new drives to the T40 by August so I can get it for when I start college.

My sentiments exactly -- except I will be starting 2nd year.

 

[pukemon]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeexcellent! (/Montgomery Burns voice) 🙂

 

[bharok]

Originally posted by: Atticu5

Originally posted by: bharok
Hopefully IBM will add these new drives to the T40 by August so I can get it for when I start college.

My sentiments exactly -- except I will be starting 2nd year.

Maybe the new mobile graphics cards from ati and nvidia will be out by then too.

 

[JZilla]

It's gonna be interesting how much noise it will make and how much power it will use.