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Teeny Tosh drives tip up
JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL GIANT TOSHIBA has announced the release of two new 1.8-inch traditional hard drives which are supposed to reduce the amount of space needed for storage in your ultra compact sub notebook nettop thigh warmer (or whatever the hell we're calling this plague of low spec laptops this week) by up to 40 per cent.
The company has replaced it dual-platter 80GB MK8016GSG with a single platter 80GB drive by increasing the platter density to 246.8 gigabits per square inch, compared to the older model's 182.8 gigabits per square inch.
The company has replaced it dual-platter 80GB MK8016GSG with a single platter 80GB drive by increasing the platter density to 246.8 gigabits per square inch, compared to the older model's 182.8 gigabits per square inch.
Both drives use a 3Gbit/sec serial ATA interface, have an average seek time of 15 milliseconds, 8 MB of cache, and spin speeds of 5,400 rpm. Energy consumption is 0.0028 watts/GB for the 160GB model and 0.0056 watts/GB for the 80GB version.
Toshiba says the single-platter 80GB MK8017GSG and dual-platter 160GB MK1617GSG drives will ship to mobile PC manufacturers and resellers in August. ยต
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Double paragraphs describing the platters. ;)

Cheers,
John
In Some Industrial Rag Picker know as theINQ, had 32 gb SSD Card previewed last week, For Only $45. Its Notebook/hand held- dweller & just might save Your Nags Some Real Cooking. 
Also I believe Butterfly effect might be greatly Reduced.
von Drashek
Watts/Gigabyte is a very silly and not usable unit. I can't choose to use only 5GB of the drive to save power. :)
For anyone too lazy to get up a calculator they draw 0.448 Watts, and its the same for the single and dual platter designs.
...or we could put TWO into a conventional laptop, in a mirrored RAID [or functionally equivalent] configuration, in order to eliminate the HDD as a single point of failure.