5mm High Hard Drives for 2015
Microprocessor and motherboard manufacturer Intel is working with hard drive manufacturers to standardize a new 2.5" disk format for Ultrabooks. The idea is to reduce the size of hard drives by 28%.
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Microprocessor and motherboard manufacturer Intel is working with hard drive manufacturers to standardize a new 2.5" disk format for Ultrabooks. The idea is to reduce the size of hard drives by 28%.
Since 2006, hard drives have used a technology called PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) for data recording.
In March 2012, Seagate was the first manufacturer to successfully store more than 1Tb per square inch using HAMR technology.
Hard drive manufacturer Hitachi recently announced a new range of hard drives intended primarily for laptops.
The specificity of these hard drives lies in their size, since they will measure only 7 millimeters thick. Available in 3 capacities - 250 GB, 320 GB and 500 GB - these hard drives all operate at 7200 rpm, have a S-ATA 6 Gbps interface and have a reduced consumption: 1.8 watts in read/write and 0.8 watts in standby.
Whether a consequence of the floods that affected "classic" hard drive manufacturers in 2011 or a favorable economic situation, the price of SSD hard drives seems to be decreasing endlessly in the United States.
Following the floods in Thailand in 2011, global hard drive production was severely disrupted due to the presence of numerous hard drive manufacturer factories - such as Seagate or Western Digital - in the affected areas.
As a result of the floods that struck Thailand in 2011, the hard drive reserves of many computer manufacturers were depleted in the last quarter of 2011. Thus, at the beginning of 2012, many computer manufacturers no longer had enough storage devices to meet demand.