While everyone is waiting for the price of
128GB SSDs or hell, the
32GB variety to bottom-out, Samsung and others have been quietly beefing up their slim, 1.8-inch N-Series hard drives from 20 to 30 to 40 and now... 60GB using perpendicular recording techniques. Better yet, Sammy's drives are just 5-mm thin, spin at 4,200rpm, and feature a (relatively) quick 7.14-millisecond average seek time and a 2MB data buffer. It's not silent like an SSD but they do squeeze the noise down to 1.8 dB -- just above the human threshold for healthy ears (read:
not yours). Of course, Sammy calls it a world's first even though
Seagate began shipping their 5-mm, 60GB, single platter 1.8-inch hard drive more than two weeks ago. Ah well, so goes the hyperbole. While we're waiting for
Tosh's chubby (8-mm thick) 100GB cousin to get an iPod fitting, the skids are now greased for a
60GB PSP on the quick...
or not.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tim UF @ Jan 25th 2007 12:55PM
60Gig, only 1/5 of an inch tall... not bad
jc @ Jan 25th 2007 1:02PM
Hello MS Xbox department, are you there? I would like two of these in my next X360 HDD configured in Raid 0...
Johan S @ Jan 25th 2007 1:16PM
"Hi, I am PSP2. I am not listening nyah nyah nyah"
Obviously Sony won't adopt this until somneone else does and then they will enter it half assly. Then they will have 300 different product lines of slightly different functionality.
I'm going to laugh at Sony and Microsoft and the cable box companies when Apple comes out with a truly innovative HDTV experience that consists of a rock solid responsive interface. Besides having an integrated DVR/HDTV and shopping/gaming experience on the HDTV itself, you can bet the remote control itself will be reinvented. The remote should have voice control will have only a few buttons which will be large and OLED and be touchscreen. On screen menus will come up super fast. And their will be touch gesture controls to scroll rapidly through tv shows and movie libraries. And when Apple takes the market by storm the competition will say they only won because of Itunes. LOL
Phil Perman @ Jan 25th 2007 1:22PM
What on earth has that got to do with the topic at hand?
If you want to spread your Mac fanboyism then fine, but please confine it to things that are in some way related to apple
uNext @ Jan 25th 2007 1:35PM
Johan stick that bitten apple up your ass. Since what you spewed is nothing but senseless shit, it should be wide enough to allow any object to import.
this thread is about a 1.8 inch hard drive & a call out to sony for the psp2 not about apple.
Theres nothing wrong with dreaming, but you should do so at your own time.
when you cliked on the "add your comment" you agreed to give feedback to the subject at hand so next time stay on topic.
Regarding this i cnat wait for APPLE to release that
"truly innovative HDTV experience that consists of a rock solid responsive interface. Besides having an integrated DVR/HDTV and shopping/gaming experience on the HDTV itself, you can bet the remote control itself will be reinvented. The remote should have voice control will have only a few buttons which will be large and OLED and be touchscreen. On screen menus will come up super fast. And their will be touch gesture controls to scroll rapidly through tv shows and movie libraries. And when Apple takes the market by storm the competition will say they only won because of Itunes"
John B. @ Jan 25th 2007 2:05PM
Your title to this post is a little misleading. 60GB 1.8" drives have been out for a while (they're up to 80GB now). The news here is that this is the first drive to have 60GB on one platter (thus allowing for a slimmer form factor).
Andrei Vassiliev @ Jan 25th 2007 2:11PM
If these are competitively priced for hardware manufacturers, we just may soon see some very attractive and small but capable hard disk based digital media players.
Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ Jan 25th 2007 2:19PM
> PSP2, you listening
Engadget should not make bad advices. Solid state storage - e.g. (HC)SD cards - is the way forward. Hurting PSP battery life further by adding another piece of mechanics (in this age of solid state media) is silly.
I'd traded all the NNNgigs of hard drive for extra flash memory. Okay, in fact I have already traded - I bought Nintendo DS.
PSP is all good, but it lacks (1) touch screen and (2) long battery life. Adding hard drive doesn't add anything new to PSP.
P.S. And listening to PSP owners, I have impression that most wanted thing is (do not laugh) video output. Some people really want to play PSP games on TV/PC screen.
Porsche 911 @ Jan 25th 2007 2:49PM
PSP with a HDMI out would be nice, 32GB flash, and bluetooth
Rohan @ Jan 25th 2007 3:39PM
Am I missing something? Was the title supposed to say "160gb" not "60gb" ???
Isn't it a 1.8 inch hard drive in the iPod? And isn't that thing 80gb?
daevh @ Jan 26th 2007 8:20AM
I believe this is a single platter drive rather than the twin platter used in the 80gb iPod. Toshiba make 100gb 1.8" twin platter drives, and i gather Samsung could make a 120gb twin platter drive quite easily...
Why Apple didn't put a drive like this in the iPhone is beyond me. The extra 5mm or so thickness wouldn't bother many people, i guess a lower battery life might though...
thegoodoldkicker @ Jan 25th 2007 3:48PM
Once again the idiots at Engadget are really stupid. First good job sammy, it's only a matter of time before Toshiba and Hitachi comes with a higher capacity 1.8 HDD. But good job copying the japanese innovations.
Second, a 60 GB in the PSP 2 would COST over $600-$700, who's gonna pay that much for a portable gaming device. BATTERY LIFE would kill the PSP.
are you listening Sony? Don't listen to Engadget, they're Anti-Sony. A 8 GB Flash would be perfect for the PSP 2.
@ Johan S.
""""I'm going to laugh at Sony and Microsoft and the cable box companies when Apple comes out with a truly innovative HDTV experience that consists of a rock solid responsive interface""""""""
ARe you stupid Fool? you much be. Just how will apple if you the HDTV experiences when they don't even know how to build a HDTV? The Sony Bravia FULL HD TV are the best in the world. Do you why? because it has EXCELLENT PICTURES QUALITY and SOUND.
Do you think somehow the Mac OS in a HD TV will give you better pictures quality you stupid idiots...NO IT WILL NOT.
Whynot @ Jan 25th 2007 6:02PM
I don't know if PSP2 is listening, but I'm hearing this disk's voice, and it's saying "RAID 1+0 in your laptop"
....must be dreaming....
GABRIEL JANKY @ Feb 10th 2007 8:12PM
I'd like to ask DATEL why they haven't tried making a better external HD enclosure for the PSP. The current one tops out at 4 GIGs with a standard microdrive. I tried an IPOD 20 GB drive but the PSP just shut down either because of the APPLE format or the fact you can't tell which way to plug it in (only one way fits due to the PC board) or the power consumption was too great. I bet with a little work on their part they can jump all over SONY and cash in on a 60GB or larger PSP. TRUST ME GAMERS WANT THIS 8GB is chicken feed with all the movies and now downloadable PS1 games through SONY and PS3. This needs to be done and it would make milions. SOMEONE send this to DATEL.