Let me just clarify a few things and give you my view
about this product.
This drive has 3 platters and 6 heads loaded on every
surfaces. So the drive height is 12.5mm, thicker than
today's standard of 9.5mm. One platter holds 67GB. This
recording density is not so much different from the current
120GB laptop drives based on longitudinal recording mode.
http://www.fcpa.com/download/download/hard-drives/mhv2200bt_datasheet.pdf
Another factor is that only SATA version is available
at this point. So there are really very few laptop
computers which can take this thick drive. I think
this drive is intended mainly for blade servers, light
weight HDD video recorders, a few desktop replacement
or small form factor desktop systems, not really for
laptops.
I guess the impact of this drive on the laptop drive market
is not very significant. More significant would be the
next generation laptop drives which are projected to have
160GB capacity thanks to perpendicular recording. Currently
only Seagate has released such a drive, but some other
companies such as Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu should release
a similar product soon. Until these drives come out and
become common, I think the prices of the mid to high
capacity (80-120GB) drives will not drop much.
David Goldman wrote:
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30600
>
> Aparently, Fujitsu has announced a 2.5" 200GB hard drive for release
> in the third quarter of this year. Hopefully, this one is only the
> first of many larger notebook HD options and a sign that smaller (?)
> drives (80-100GB) are about to drop in price.
>
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