Comments on: Coming soon: A notebook with a terabyte

Hitachi's got a 2.5-inch drive that can pack 500GB, and Asus is going to put a pair into a notebook PC.

Gahh, Slow down!
by ethana2 January 2, 2008 11:28 PM PST: Windows' bloat can't keep up! Do you know what you're doing to those poor RAM manufacturers?!

..actually, that's gotta be a boon for them too.

Bah humbuxubuntu... Well, KDE4 and E17 are pretty sweet too...
Gotta say I'm sticking to compiz though.; Like this Reply to this comment

Clarification Please

by Mystigo January 3, 2008 5:30 AM PST

> Hitachi's Travelstar 5K500 drive, coming in February,

> The drive will come out in the second quarter.

Which is it please?

Story clarified
by Jon Skillings January 3, 2008 7:05 AM PST: The Travelstar 5K500 is indeed coming in February. The drive that's due in the second quarter is the E5K500, which is intended for use in blade servers, routers, and other non-notebook gear.

Sorry for the confusion.; Like this

I'm the consumer and yess
by johnthedj January 3, 2008 8:14 AM PST: I'm the consumer and yes more space in a notebook is needed. The sooner the better I upgrade to the lagest size possible and still fill it up. It would be smart for all makers of notebooks and laptops to make them with 2 hard drives in them. As it is only a fraction do. A terabyte will seem tiny in the years to come. I remeber when I recieved my 286 IBM and it had 40mb yup MBs!; Like this Reply to this comment

2.5" NOTEBOOK?
by windinthedust January 4, 2008 6:19 AM PST: 2.5" drive in a notebook? That's going to be one thick puppy!

Rather then making larger notebooks, the hot sellers will be the
smaller notebooks. Solid state drives will slowly take over. Large
storage will travel with you on separate portable drives utilizing
firewire 800 (new S3200 spec.); Like this Reply to this comment