Toshiba Intros 2.5-inch 7mm 7,278rpm Hard Drives

[exfileme]

Here's a super-thin hard drive for super-thin notebooks.

Toshiba Intros 2.5-inch 7mm 7,278rpm Hard Drives : Read more

 

[apache_lives]

hdd performance is simple - its either an SSD, or its NOT

this is not an ssd, it has the same performance field of any other modern 2.5 inch drive

if its more expensive then a regular mechanical drive, then its not worth it

 

[amdfangirl]

Is that extra 78 rpm just a marketing ploy to make it look faster?

 

[daglesj]

I'd rather get the slim 500GB Seagate hybrids. I've been pretty impressed by them so far.

I've pulled too many failing Toshiba 2.5" drives from laptops than I care to remember.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

hdd performance is simple - its either an SSD, or its NOT

this is not an ssd, it has the same performance field of any other modern 2.5 inch drive

if its more expensive then a regular mechanical drive, then its not worth it

Not really, there is a reasonable difference between 5xxx RPM drives and 72xxx RPM ones. But within those classes, less so.

I'm guessing that the extra 78 RPM is either a marketing ploy, or it rounds more nicely somewhere.

 

[nukemaster]

Is that extra 78 rpm just a marketing ploy to make it look faster?

Marketing for sure. is is just over 1% difference so would not exactly be ground breaking.

 

[jarred125]

Not that I am trying to say this is great innovation or anything, but the fact that it is a 7mm drive means it can be fit into thin laptops where 9mm can't. The smaller Dell Latitudes require 7mm, and I believe most of those drives are 5400 RPM.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Seagate makes Momentus Thin drives, and Hitachi has had them for a year and a half: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/20120221231105_Hitachi_Unwraps_World_s_Thinnest_500GB_7200rpm_Hard_Drive.html

 

[lamorpa]

hdd performance is simple - its either an SSD, or its NOT

this is not an ssd, it has the same performance field of any other modern 2.5 inch drive

if its more expensive then a regular mechanical drive, then its not worth it

Why would a HDD first be more expensive and then later be a regular mechanical drive? That makes no sense. It would somehow change because of the expense?

 

[jarred125]

Not that I am trying to say this is great innovation or anything, but the fact that it is a 7mm drive means it can be fit into thin laptops where 9mm can't. The smaller Dell Latitudes require 7mm, and I believe most of those drives are 5400 RPM.