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Hitachi 5K160 just announced, months after Seagate

I think I'll wait and see if the newly re-introduced glass-platters used for perpendicular recording media will last better than current 2.5" notebook HDD's (which i think use aluminum).

I suspect glass platters don't last as long (after you get one bad sector, you will get many other bad sectors quickly).

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storag ... 003_2.html

Here're more details:

5K160's data density is: 131Gb/inch2
5K100's data density is: 81 GB/inch2


So if you thought the increased "speed" from changing from 7K60 to 7K100 was fast, wait till you see it ramp up to 7K160's data density.

www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2938
www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/7k100/7k100.htm