Seagate to be first to market with 2.5″ 1TB portable hard drives?

Hey you. The one that takes 3-400 pictures of every family event, sunrise, and other not so important occurrence on planet earth. I know you’re probably running out of hard drive space or already on your 2nd or 3rd. Instead of actually deleting the bad, redundant, or downright useless pictures, Seagate will soon feed your addiction. Already stealing the thunder from Toshiba’s 640GB 2.5″ hard drive announcement” Mobile techies and digital media lovers who need the top-of-the-line when it comes to mobile data storage and capacity will soon have a new friend in seagate. According to several British retailers of whom have already started listing pages for new drives, Seagate will be announcing and soon releasing the worlds’ first 2.5″ 1TB hard drives.

Now, before you get to excited you should know they’re 5400 RPM hard drives with a rather meager 8 MB cache meaning they aren’t going to be the quickest drives when burdened with the task of filling 1TB’s worth of space with countless 1′s and 0′s. Also unknown at this time is the drives height. Some may see this as unimportant. However, if you plan on using these drives in laptops, drive height is a big unanswered question. If it’s a 9.5mm or smaller design, laptop hard drive space can finally claim to have reached the herald 1TB mark. However, any bigger than 9.5mm and these new boundary busting drives will be relegated to external hard drive cases. Hey, I’m not complaining either way. Though a 1 TB single drive laptop sounds wicked doesn’t it?

Source: Notebook Review, Fudzilla

128GB nano SSD redefines “portable hard drive”

While traditional spinning hard drives are becoming more and more endangered as SSD’s drop in price while rising equally in reliability and storage space, even the standard 2.5″ SSD has a new competitor. Except this time, the competitor is one of its own. Shown off at Computex, the nano SSD drive looks to usher in a whole new range of possibilities for SSD’s and the devices that they are incorporated in. One look at the picture above shows you just how great a feat science has once again accomplished. The nano flash drives are no bigger than the face of a watch yet hold 128GB of data! While the write/read speeds of 160MB/s and 150MB/s respectively aren’t going to break any records, however, considering how tiny this little nano monster is, those numbers are nothing to scoff at by any means. Hopefully we’ll see these things popping up in devices before you know it! Another picture inside gives you a good grasp of the nano SSD’s real size compared to 2.5″ and 3.5″ drives.