Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500GB

[BFG10K]

Single 500GB platter, 7mm height and an operating shock rating of 400G. And it cleans up the benchmarks too.

This is a little engineering marvel IMO.

http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_scorpio_blue_review_500gb_7mm_wd5000lpvt

 

[Compman55]

Very interesting. It looks on par with a caviar black 7200RPM laptop drive but with a thinner profile and better power consumption.

Hitachi used to be the leader in laptop HD;s, looks like WD might be taking their place.

With that mention, I have always looked at laptops on display at best buy, sams club, etc, and most are not shipping from the factory with WD. Why not?

 

[C1]

That's all sweet, but 7mm height form factor is not compatible for use with most notebooks, particularly ones which use the internal HDD bracket/caddy.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...=REG&A=details

 

[BFG10K]

I'm pretty sure the 7mm height is targeting ultrabooks.