Fujitsu shoehorns 500-GB into notebook drive

Want to carry half a Terabyte of data in your computer? Fujitsu is delivering just that come May, with their new 500 Gigabyte drive designed for notebooks. The MHZ2 BT is a 2.5-inch drive with a Serial ATA interface, capable of pumping 3 GB a second through the pipes.

You'll be looking at a power drain of around 1.8 Watts during reads and writes, but Fujitsu's press release doesn't offer an idle power draw nor the seek time for data. We'll probably see a price announcement when closer to launch; my best guess would be in the $350 to $400 range based on their current offerings. Given the high capacity and near 2-Watt power drain, I'd look for these in standard notebooks as opposed to UMPCs and sub-notebooks.

Comments

[Oliver]

Are there any UMPCs that actually use 2.5" hard disks?

[Badcam]

The Kohjinsha SH8 but it's an IDE and not a Sata. Bummer!