Maxit Mag - 1.8" drives reach 100 Gb

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1.8" drives reach 100 Gb

Written by John M

Thursday, 24 May 2007 12:38

Small enough for you?

Hitachi was the first to conquer the terabyte mark for the 3.5" form factor (yes, you can finally buy one of those), while Seagate's Momentus line houses the biggest of the 2.5" drives. Who has been first in the ultra-mobile segment? None of the mentioned above, nor Samsung nor even Maxtor, but Toshiba.

Before you go out and buy a 3000$ notebook, be aware that capacity is not everything and that, due to space constraints and a desire to limit power requirements, it will lose every benchmark compared to bigger drives. The MK1011GAH in particular, with a 4200 RPM speed and 8 Mb of cache, will not make it to a 30 Mb/s tranfer rate. More details can be found at Tom's Hardware, for expamle: it still uses the UltraATA/100 interface (less energy), has two platters and weights only 59 grams.

But if you are happy with such a slow drive, it may be a good choice. 3.5" drives require 20W on average, 2.5" ones need only 5W and this one beats them hands down: 1.8 watts. And is actually not so slow compared to older drives in this segment; after all, it uses perpendicular recording technology, which helps making faster and larger hard drives.

In the end, if you can wait, I would hope for the second generation solid-state/flash hard drives to focus on the 1.8" form factor instead of the 2.5" one.

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