Fujitsu Plans 200GB Laptop Hard Drive

I can honestly say that something like a 200gb drive for a notebook would be pretty attractive to the common road warrior. So long as you avoid misplacing your notebook, the investment in a drive of this size might just be worth it?

Fujitsu expects to begin shipping a 200GB hard drive suitable for use in laptop computers in the third quarter of this year, it said Monday.

Based on that schedule the drive could be available in computers for end-users within the year. That’s earlier than Fujitsu predicted last year when it said such drives wouldn’t be available until 2007.

The current highest capacity 2.5-inch drive from Fujitsu can accommodate up to 160GB of data so the new drive will represent an increase in storage capacity of 25 percent. Like the 160GB drive, the new model will have a Serial ATA interface and is primarily aimed at entertainment and multimedia laptops, which often need a large storage area for video files. Source: PCWorld

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