160 gig notebook hard drives
p2p news / p2pnet: Seagate Technology says it’s now shipping a notebook PC hard drive that aligns bits of data vertically rather than horizontally, allowing it to boost capacity by up to 160 gigs.
The new 2.5″ Momentus 5400.3 is a 5,400-rpm drive operating at 4,200-rpm to extend battery life, says the company, going on, “Seagate will also extend the advantages of perpendicular recording to its 7,200-rpm Momentus disc drive and to all of its 1- and 3.5-inch products.”
The Momentus 5400.3 features the Ultra ATA 100 Mbyte/second interface and Seagate says it’ll begin shipping Momentus 5400.3 with the 1.5 Gbit/second Serial ATA interface later this year.
Also See:
Seagate Technology – Seagate Ships World’s First 160GB Notebook PC Hard Drives With Perpendicular Recording Technology, January 16, 2006
January 17th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Let’s see, copy into a laptop 20 movies and 20,000 mp3 songs.
All that is needed is that a cartel rep (the FBI?) take one of these laptop from a teenager at an airport checkpoint and…
100 years in jail for the parent and seveal billions of dollars in a RIAA type of lawsuit to the parent.
More likely, these disks, and the bigger capacity ones that will surely follow, and the arrogance of the cartels will mean the end of the video/music business as we know it. Great.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com