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Submitted by fanze100 253d ago | news

Western Digital Announces World's Thinnest 2.5-inch Hybrid Drive

Maximum PC: A few months after it started shipping the Scorpio Blue 7mm hard drive, aimed at Intel-based ultrabooks and other ultra-thin and light notebooks, Western Digital on Monday up the ante by announcing what it claims is the “world's thinnest 2.5-inch hybrid hard drive.” The world’s largest HDD maker said it has begun sampling the 5mm-thin hybrid HDD and will be showcasing the technology during the upcoming WD Investor Day on September 13, 2012. (Hard drive, PC, PC hardware, Ultrabook)

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newsguy  +   253d ago
nice. Guinness world record here we come!
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andresegers  +   253d ago
Indeed
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mpctips  +   253d ago
It definitely appears hybrid hard drives is the direction the storage industry is headed.
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fanze100  +   253d ago
but nothing beats an SSD
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justinbkerr  +   253d ago
Agreed, this is no SSD.
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killerhog  +   253d ago
So could this be used for the ps3? I wouldn't mind getting one for my ps3 and give my pc the HDD my ps3 currently has (western 500gb).
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