The new Fujitsu drive will be faster and provide ample storage space for the most laptop users:

“The “MHZ2 BJ” series of drives have disks that spin at 7,200rpm (revolutions per minute) — faster than the 5,400rpm common on most similar drives — and will be available in capacities up to 320GB, the Tokyo company said Monday.”

link: Fujitsu plans speedy 320GB laptop drive

Fujitsu has not announced a suggested price point yet. That always suggests that the first wave launch might be expensive. What would be a selling feature, and a welcomed security measure, is built-in encryption. It would be ideal if the user of these high capacity storage machines had to use encryption. With so much storage space, extraneous data will be on these machines and, inevitably, lost. The scope of a single data breach could be massive. It would seem that compulsory encryption would be a selling feature to businesses and government agencies who will be compelled to ensure security measures. As more and more confidential information is compromised because of lost or stolen laptops, encryption should be a built-in standard.

Catherine Forsythe
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