160 GB drives in notebooks and UPMCs, oh yes you can!

fujitsu_mhw2_bh.jpgThanks to perpendicular recording technology, you’ll be able to drop a 2.5-inch 160 GB hard drive into your mobile computing device starting in October. Fujitsu just announced the availability of the 5,400 RPM drives, but is holding out on the price for now. These drives won’t be anywhere near the price of a solid-state flash drive and beat the pants off the SSDs in capacity for now. However, they will generate more heat, use more power and therefore won’t have the battery savings of a flash-based drive.

Is it ‘too little too late’ for perpendicular recording drives or will the high prices of flash-drives allow for a good few years of market growth for these drives? I think there’s room for both, simply because notebooks used as occasionally portable desktop replacements have much to gain by the traditional hard drives and perpendicular recording technology….thoughts?

(via Engadget)

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