Hitachi 500GB 2.5" Drive!

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SHoTTa35 · #1 Post by **SHoTTa35** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:30 pm

Well Hitachi has slapped Toshiba with their new announced drive. Coming February 2008 you can buy the 5K500 (5400RPM 500GB)

Read: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/0 ... it-500gb-2

That's the good stuff.

pianowizard · #2 Post by **pianowizard** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:34 pm

OMG, that's a lot of storage for laptop! The biggest hard drive that I have is a 1TB external USB drive and this will be half as big!

mattbiernat · #3 Post by **mattbiernat** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:37 pm

SHoTTa35 wrote:Well Hitachi has slapped Toshiba with their new announced drive. Coming February 2008 you can buy the 5K500 (5400RPM 500GB)

Read: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/0 ... it-500gb-2

That's the good stuff.

hmmm would my T23 take this sucker?

#4 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:37 pm

Now if they can just make it run properly (7200-rpm) or better yet, twice as fast (10,000-rpm), we will finally have a good drive with lots of space for at least four years or so. ... JDH

pianowizard · #5 Post by **pianowizard** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:39 pm

mattbiernat wrote:hmmm would my T23 take this sucker?

This drive will most likely be SATA, unfortunately.

SHoTTa35 · #6 Post by **SHoTTa35** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:40 pm

well you can slap one in your drive bay then get the ultrabay adapter with another and have a 1TB laptop

How about them apples?

Aww crap, just noticed.... It's 12.5mm so it wont fit in our systems anyways.

BeeJayEmm · #7 Post by **BeeJayEmm** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:56 pm

SHoTTa35 wrote:well you can slap one in your drive bay then get the ultrabay adapter with another and have a 1TB laptop

That's what ASUS is thinking.

RasmusP · #8 Post by **RasmusP** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:10 am

SHoTTa35 wrote:well you can slap one in your drive bay then get the ultrabay adapter with another and have a 1TB laptop

How about them apples?

Aww crap, just noticed.... It's 12.5mm so it wont fit in our systems anyways.

Will it fit in any laptop? Would it fit in newer thinkpads like the X60?

Either way, exciting news

Trekk69 · #9 Post by **Trekk69** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:31 am

Soon to be the day when 500Gb is in an SSD form......oh hopefully a couple of months!!

commander · #10 Post by **commander** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:33 am

SHoTTa35 wrote:It's 12.5mm so it wont fit in our systems anyways.

Man, thats the worst message ever

No way to put it into T60 or UltraBay slot?

Trekk69 · #11 Post by **Trekk69** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:55 pm

Trekk69 wrote:Soon to be the day when 500Gb is in an SSD form......oh hopefully a couple of months!!

Speak of the devil:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/04/bitm ... -ces-2008/[/url]

SHoTTa35 · #12 Post by **SHoTTa35** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:20 pm

commander wrote:
SHoTTa35 wrote:It's 12.5mm so it wont fit in our systems anyways.
Man, thats the worst message ever

No way to put it into T60 or UltraBay slot?

Nope, still can't even do that. They take 9.5MM drives. You can use a USB 2.0 thingy tho for 12.5mm drives and have all that storage with ya tho. Oh well

commander · #13 Post by **commander** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:56 pm

SHoTTa35 wrote:
commander wrote: Man, thats the worst message ever

No way to put it into T60 or UltraBay slot?
Nope, still can't even do that. They take 9.5MM drives.

Damm!

ajkula66 · #14 Post by **ajkula66** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:52 pm

If I'm not mistaken, some older systems (A2x, A3x,T2x) will take 12.5 mm drives, but the issue here is that these'll be SATA. Now can these possibly fit in an UltraBay 2000 HD caddy?!?!

commander · #15 Post by **commander** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:29 am

I just found on thinkwiki, that in the advanced dock is Ultrabay Enhanced, which is "a bit thicker" thank Ultrabay Slim (current version of our laptops).

I measured my Slim CD module, and its realy 9.5mm. But I found in specifications, that Enhanced CD module is 12.7mm. So maybe it can fit to advanced dock?

Trekk69 · #16 Post by **Trekk69** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:18 pm

Just from CES: http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/06/sams ... top-drive/

joester · #17 Post by **joester** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:28 pm

From the Samsung Website on the M5 drive:
"The new SpinPoint M5 hard drives feature a 5,400rpm spin rate, 1.5Gbps SATA interface and 8MB cache memory. PATA models will be added to the lineup in May."

Let's hope the same is true for the M6!

Joe

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