1TB notebook hard drive released

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Announcement prompts notebook users to choose speed or capacity

1TB notebook hard drive released

 

[Budza]

+ External USB3.0 enclosure or eSATA= awesome. Arrgh!

Not unreasonably priced too

 

[supersunbird]

Yoh! yoh! yoh!

 

[bdt]

Only, it's not:

It also features a 12.5 mm form factor as well as lower power consumption and operating temperatures as well as better shock absorption.

That pesky 12.5mm means it won't fit into notebooks whose chassis (typically - I can't recall one that doesn't, feel free to jog my memory) accept 9.5mm-height drives. Which, more properly, makes this the first "1TB" (and I'll even let THAT one go!) 2.5" drive.

Data lifted from real, non-sloppy, non-careless reporting at El Reg who, correctly, report:

Both also have a 12.5mm depth measurement, which means they can't be retrofitted to notebooks with a 9.5mm deep 2.5-inch drive bay.

That 3mm may seem like a little but it really is rather a lot, when it counts.

 

[kingrob]

As long as I can fit it into my PS3, I don't really mind the extra 3mm.

 

[bdt]

As long as I can fit it into my PS3, I don't really mind the extra 3mm.

From the comfort of my notebook keyboard I say ... a pox on you and your PS3!

 

[bwana]

Data lifted from real, non-sloppy, non-careless reporting at El Reg who, correctly, report: That 3mm may seem like a little but it really is rather a lot, when it counts.

Not sure I understand your gripe - if comes in a 12.5mm form factor is someone likely to assume it would fit in a 9.5mm high bay?

Anyway, what do I care - it will fit in my lappy just fine.

 

[bdt]

Not sure I understand your gripe - if comes in a 12.5mm form factor is someone likely to assume it would fit in a 9.5mm high bay?

Simple, really: it got reported here as a *notebook* drive which, when more than a few (and I'll guess the majority but I invite anyone to prove me wrong) notebooks out there can't take it. Which makes it NOT a 'notebook' drive so much as a 2.5" drive. But the real fun starts with someone not knowing it won't fit their notebook and gets one (what NON-tech is likely to check something like drive height, specially when you consider the last time you saw a 12.5mm high drive). At that point, SOMEone has to pay (and, obviously, not the idiot that got it without checking).

Anyway, what do I care - it will fit in my lappy just fine.

Ahh, must be nice to run a machine with so much free space inside it ..non-Apple machines tend to use that space more effectively. (taking a stab in the dark from recall of your pc proclivities)