HGST pops out 1TB ultraportable travelstar drive Western Digital subsidiary HGST has launched a 1TB Travelstar drive that’s slower than its existing 1TB Travelstar. Handy factlette: HGST has sold enough Travelstar drives that if they were stacked on top of each other they would create a digital tower of Babel some 700km high. The new drive, the Z5K1000, is s 2-platter 750GB …
If this ever hits a fondleslab it would be a crap one. The iPad is 7.5mm thick and needs to include case and screen in that so this 7mm drive would make a tablet huge. This is also spinning disk so the tablet would be slow as mollasses and open to all sorts of mechanical failure to boot.
A manufacturer could take the electronics from a smaller tablet and stick it behind a bigger screen, then pad it out to nearer 10mm. With curved edges this wouldn't look too bad- and would also give room for a bigger battery and a better camera. Standard flash for booting and programs would keep your performance high, with the terabyte drive there for your bulk storage.
Alternatively, stick it in it's own case with a battery and USB-OTG to give a combined extended battery and nigh-infinite storage for your tablet and/or phone.
@AC your comment is the opposite of why Apple are the top of this game. There are too many geeks who think whacking in a bigger screen and disk and just making it a few mm thicker are a good idea. This is the sort of mentality that made it so shocking that Apple brought out the MacBook Air and then the iPhone and the iPad - in every case they removed the extra crap that a portable device doesn't need to make a device that was portable enough that people actually started taking the devices with them and using them. You want a bigger device, buy a desktop. You want something portable, deal with less disk space :)
You want something portable, deal with less disk space :)
Or just plug the 500GB USB-powered spinning-rust HDD I have, into the USB port on the convertible Droidslab that I also have. Which doesn't have its sensor and screen glass glued together and is just a little bit massively more repairable than the Macbook Air, and rather thin. And also years old.
Oddly enough, it was the Applistas who were saying how using a smaller screen was a stupid idea when Samsung brought out the original Tab. Apparently now, whacking in a bigger screen is a stupid idea. Seems that you can't win unless you have a fucking gigantic glowing fruit on the back of the device.
Not sure i understand the point in this? they have a 1tb 2.5" drive already. a new thinner slower one, where does that sit?
Any hardware that is desperate for 7mm thickness i.e. ultrabook / tablet is surely looking for either solid state drive or at last a faster spin than 5400rpm?
bog standard laptops / thin clients et al would have space for the older faster product.
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