Fujitsu's 250GB slimster for ultra-portable laptops

Slide on over Samsung, you'll need to make room on your "world's biggest" pedestal for Fujitsu's new 250GB, 2.5-inch drive for laptops. The MHY2BH matches Samsung's line-up nearly spec-for-spec: 12-ms average seek, 8MB cache, SATA interface, 5,400rpm, 24dB operational wheeze, and a slightly better 1.9W power draw. Still, neither can match the 300GB capacity of Fujitsu's other 2.5-incher. But Fujitsu's latest, just like Sammy's, measures in at a mere 9.5-mm thick -- a full 3-mm less than the 300GB beast -- making these the highest capacity drives available in the ultra-portable slimsters we all crave.

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[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2007 6:11AM]

Sweet. Anything that drives down the price of big 9.5mm high drives is good (the only one that fits in to the macbook pro form factor!)

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2007 8:22AM]

awesome.

first a 200GB Hitachi drive at 7200 RPM, now this. the future suddenly seems a lot brighter. thanks fujitsu, sammy, hitachi!

btw 9.5mm is very important here not just for extra slim notebooks but for pretty much all laptops except 17+" monstrosities. example, I have a not-so-slim 15.4"er and it only takes 9.5mm. 12mm is mostly for marketing purposes, it realistically won't fit in 95% of laptops on the market.

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2007 6:14PM]

But when do we get it?

[(Unverified) Posted May 15th 2007 1:44PM]

actually, most ultra-portables use 1.8" 8mm drives, and that's why they have only up to 80/100 Gb drives available.