Seagate Laptop Ultrathin HDD Review: 500 GB In 5 mm Of Space

[Someone Somewhere]

For new laptops, where they can fill the extra space.

 

[g-unit1111]

I want to see these hard drives being brought to cell phones. Wouldn't that be great if you could store your entire music collection on your phone?

 

[Onus]

Well, you can already get 32GB microSD cards; those will hold a LOT of music.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

64GB ones aren't hard to find either.

Data density in flash is quite a bit higher than in HDDs, too. Think how many µSDs you'd need to take up that much space...

 

[Shankar Ragi]

The date when SSD takes over HDD has just been pushed by a decade into the future!

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Yeah... no.

I reckon in a couple of years the only thing HDDs are going to be around for is long term bulk storage in datacentres. Everything else will be SSDs.

Seen how fast prices are dropping? And the only reason for these over mSATA/NVM is price?

 

[travsb1984]

Who is going to buy this? The only advantage of creating something like this is if your creating a new form factor. No system builder will use this because the size is basicly proprietary, and no consumer will buy this because if your upgrading a HD who cares if its 9mm or 5mm. I don't see a market.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Oh, they will. The thin wars continue...

Why wouldn't manufacturers use proprietary standards?