14.12.2009 06:20 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Seagate will release a 2,5" disk of 7 mm thickness

Currently, there are two standards of thickness of the 2.5" hard drives, the 9,5 mm that is more generally on offer, and the 12,5 mm that one finds on certain discs of high capacity and is only rarely found in laptops. In addition, the manufacturers also produce thicker discs for specific needs, like Seagate, who markets a disk of 15mm in an external case.  It is impossible to integrate this thickness in a portable. If the manufacturers need thinner disks  they must go towards the 1,8" models who exist into 7 and even 5 mm thicknesses. This type of disk Apple installs in its Macbook Air.  However the arrival of the SSD changed things a little. If one takes apart such a 2,5" disk, one finds that the case takes a lot of the space and that the disk could have been thinner. One particularly notices it with the latest SSD from Intel, the X25-M Postville. 

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