Speed & Space: Hitachi's 100 GB SATA 5400 RPM 2.5" Hard Drive

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1645972,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532' target='_blank'>http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1645972,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532</a><br /><br /></div><i>"On Tuesday, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced the Travelstar 5K100, a 100-Gbyte SATA drive for the notebook PC. The 5,400-RPM drive will be available in two models, the Travelstar 5K100 for standard notebook applications and E5K100 for more demanding data-access applications, like blade servers. The time is right for SATA to make its way into the notebook PC, Hitachi said, after SATA successfully has been established on the desktop."</i><br /><br />Awesome...except that I'm not aware of a single notebook on the market today that supports SATA hard drives. :? Still, hopefully this will mean that later this year we'll see SATA-based notebooks.

[Suhit Gupta]

I am most impressed by the dimensions (70x100x9.5mm) and the incredible weight of 95g. More reading and an image here (http://akiba.sorobangeeks.com/news_8657.html).

Suhit

[James Fee]

I believe I read that the Intel Alviso (might have the name wrong on that) is supposed to brink SATA to laptops. I assume Dell would use it in its M60 Precision workstation laptops...