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Toshiba 500GB hard disk drive for netbooks out now! – How much space does a man need?
Toshiba has finally unveiled its new category of high performance 7200rpm hard disk drives that are meant to be used in Laptops and netbooks.
These new HDDs use less power than the previous 7200rpm disk drives, so you get the same speed with less power used. 0.5TB in a netbook! Just think how much you can throw into your netbook.
The good news does not ends there. The new HDD is nearly 13% faster than the previous 7200rpm hard disks, thanks to the software and hardware improvements.
Samsung unable to find netbook buyer for its 1.8-inch HDD
Samsung launched its huge 250GB 1.8-inch HDD in the month of July 2009, but it was unable to attract any buyers for it. It seems as if the market for 1.8-inch market is now dying. Samsung’s new 1.8-inch HDD offers reduced power consumption against all 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch hard disks and has improved shock protection.
Interestingly, all hard disk manufactures left the 1.8-inch hard disk market, but Samsung and Toshiba. Last year, Toshiba came up with 120GB, 240GB and 250GB 1.8-inch hard disks, but they did not receive a tremendous response from various laptop or netbook manufactures.
Clearly, gone are the days that netbooks are shrinking. Most of the netbook manufactures are now coming up with bigger and bigger netbooks. Due to the increased sizes of current netbooks, netbook manufactures are easily able to use the standard 2.5-inch hard disks instead of the smaller 1.8-inch ones and thus has reduced the demand by a lot.
HP Mini 110 and 1101 launched
HP has announced to to refresh its Mini 1000 series by launching two new models, mini 110 and mini 1101. Both of the models will offer enhancements and some features that were deliberately omitted from the original mini 1000 (example: VGA out and faster HDD)
Both mini 110 and mini 1101 will now feature VGA-out port as-well-as faster Hard Disks (160GB @ 5400rpm). If that was not enough for you, HP is also going to offer a dedicated HD-decoder chip from Broadcom as an option for those who love watching HD movies on the go.
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