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Hitachi hypes 'world's most capacious' laptop hard drive

Stu Reeves

Pah! 

Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 12:25 GMT

Joke

PC world will sell laptops come with a "massive" 40gb Hard drive and a huge 1gb of RAM

Anonymous Coward

Re: Pah! 

Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 13:26 GMT

Boffin

Of course it's a "massive" 40gb drive - just about everything in the universe is massive... the definition being: "has mass"

So... a "massive" hard drive just means it has a real hard drive, not one of those imaginary ones that the competitors sell!

A "huge 1gb of RAM" ... does that mean it uses desktop form-factor memory, rather than laptop? Hence the larger size??

Anonymous Coward

its like... 

Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 13:28 GMT

decision: buy new laptop that takes larger drive......or buy an external drive.....

thats an easy one.

Simon Ward

Bugger bugger bugger bugger .... 

Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 15:39 GMT

Unhappy

It's 12.5mm deep, meaning that my dreams of having a half-terabyte drive in my laptop have been well and truly shafted :-( Ah well, looks like I'll have to settle for 320Gb, unless someone has a 9.5mm, 500Gb drive in the pipeline (can't see it, somehow)

Steve

500GB or 500,000MB 

Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 16:43 GMT

Stop

Is it really 500GB? or is this the usual trick of using base 10?

Anonymous Coward

Not even 500,000Mb 

Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 17:13 GMT

HD manufacturers are unlikely to change their base 10 approach unless legally obliged - think about it, they'd all have to do it at the same time and even then it would look bad compared to "older" drives.

So this one's likely to be about 453Gb after formatting. The problem's just going to get worse as the numbers get bigger

LaeMi Qian

GigaMegaKiloWanna 

Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 20:06 GMT

Boffin

Since they list 'Gigabytes' (GB), it is safe to assume it is base-10 Gigas.

'Gibibytes' (GiB) are the base-2 version, I recently learned.

Though as with clothes sizes, where getting one manufacturer to agree with another exactly how big a centimeter/inch is, reality might be more of a challenge!

Fraser

Wow 

Posted Thursday 3rd January 2008 22:43 GMT

Just think how many unencrypted personal financial details you could get on a drive like that if you work for some sort of government agency/accountancy firm.

David Perry

@ Wow 

Posted Friday 4th January 2008 02:25 GMT

Gates Horns

Slam it in a USB2 enclosure and you could probably plug into into an unmanned PC at HRMC - or ask a junior to do it for you, and blag that you could get him sacked for refusing to co-operate..

jeanl

nano tech HD 

Posted Sunday 6th January 2008 02:44 GMT

All these HD will eventually obsolete replace with the nano technology chips hold terabytes as small as a stamp with only .05 mm thickness. I couldn't remember the company name mentioned in a technology business magazine with millionaires sportsmen and billionaires heavily invested into the new starter-up specialist company. Apple iPhone and IPod should be the company to deploy such technology if not mistaken.