Death of the Fujitsu 1.8-inch hard drive

While you’re paying your last respects to the Dell Axim line of PDAs, be sure to visit another computing casket as well today. Fujitsu had planned a 1.8-inch traditional hard drive line for mobile devices but just put the kibosh on it with a wait-and-see approach. Fujitsu realizes that the storage market appears poised towards flash-based or SSD drives; in my opinion, canceling plans to fabricate magnetic storage devices is a wise move. Remember, my prediction is that by this time next year we’ll see nearly as many new devices with SSD storage as we do with traditional magnetic storage.

(via iLounge & Engadget)

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