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100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-whole-lotta-nekkid dept.

zmcnulty writes "Toshiba has announced their new hard drive today with a 100GB capacity. It's a 2.5 inch drive, is only 9.5mm tall, and supports ATA/100. The (Japanese) Impress Watch article I translated offers a couple more details, though not many. The OEM sample price is about $1,092 USD...but don't ask me what that means for consumers. The previous capacity title was held by IBM with their 80GB Travelstar."

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  1. Remember, Kids! by American+AC+in+Paris · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's not the size or the thickness that counts--it's the speed with which you can spin it and still read what's on the surface.

    Wait...

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  2. iPod killer... by michaelnz · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll get these out of the way early: Why would I buy an iPod for $250 when for 800 dollars more I could get 25 times the capacity with this... Does it support .ogg?

  3. Re:You can tell a lot about a man... by dildatron · · Score: 5, Funny

    how much porn he has

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  4. Re:20% lower power consumption's nice too! by Tenebrious1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dropping the power consumption by 20% sounds like a win.

    Well, it doesn't hurt, but it's not a huge deal. When I'm unplugged and working, the hard drive is sitting idle so lowering power consumption doesn't significantly affect battery life.

    Now, having a low power DVD player would be much better, watching movies really sucks the life out of a battery.

    Of course, with a 100GB drive, I can finally store a decent number of movies on the drive. Still, it'd be better to store movies in smaller sections, load up to a RAM disk and watch from there instead of keeping the drive spinning.

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  5. Re:20% lower power consumption's nice too! by shamino0 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Unfortunately @ 4200 rpm it's going to be slooow.

    If I could find a 7200 rpm drive that didn't destroy the battery life in my PowerBook I would be very happy.

    Which brings to mind an interesting idea. I wonder if anybody's tried making a hard drive with a variable-speed spindle. Provide a bunch of speeds that your operating system can select from. So you can run at 4200 RPM (or maybe even slower) when you're on batteries and spin up to 7200 when you're plugged into an external power source. Make it configurable through a power-management control panel.

    Given that drives already have power modes where they completely turn off at times, this might not be a big stretch for an HD company to design.