1TB laptop harddrives

The new 1TB laptop harddrives are 12.5mm in thickness. Whereas the old 500GB laptop harddrives are 9.5mm in thickness. Will these thicker 1TB fit inside X201 and T60P?

 

Just wait a while, there will be 9.5mm 1TB before soon. There are already 9.5mm 750GB drives

 

the thinkpads have to use the 9.5 mm thick hdd. The 12.7 version uses two platter, and the 9.5 mm version uses one platter. I think there will be a 1 tb 9.5 mm version by the end of this year.

 

This is not true. If the hdd's capacity exceeds the platter density, a 9.5mm will use two-platters. This applies to every laptop drive out there.

 

@vinuneuro. current 9.5 mm drive all use one platter from what i can gather, so i am not sure why are you arguing about this.

correction, 9.5 mm drive can use either single or double platters, the 12.5 mm drive uses 3 platters.
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Read Zaz's comment for clarification.

 

I don't believe that's true. The largest platters now can hold 375GB. To get to 1TB you'd need three of them, which is why it's 12.7mm, two to get to 750GB, the largest 9.5mm drives. I believe most if not all 320GB and above drives use two platters, but that will probably changes as newer drives come out. The benefits of single platter drive being slightly better performance and they're more quiet.

The 1TB might fit if you leave off the bumpers and caddy, but I don't know that you want to do run it that way.

 

had a closer look at the 2.5 inch hdd technology, each platter can hold a maximum of 500 gigs.

 

You saw this where?

 

Thanks guys for all the helpful info. I will wait for the 9.5mm 1TB drives.

 

i emailed a friend working at Seagate in China...

 

Visit the Hardware Upgrades forum. This is something discussed there all the time, directly or not. For all current production 9.5mm hdd's, the highest platter density is 320gb. Anything above that will require another platter.

 

so a twin platter 9.5 mm WD7500BPVT with 750 gigs has only single platter capacity of 320 gigs?

Western Digital Scorpio Blue Review (750GB WD7500BPVT) | StorageReview.com

 

Ok so they're past 320gb/platter now. It certainly defeats your claim of all 9.5mm hdd's being single-platter (which anyway didn't make sense against your other claim of them being at 500gb/platter).

 

This is absolutely patently untrue, no question.

 

yep MOST 2.5" drives I have tore into lately are dual platter. the current 1 T drives are 3

 

500 gigs per platter is the limit of the current technology, i am not saying they are using it right now. Also, that 500 gigs per platter statement was just to back up what Zaz had posted. I did recognise that i made a mistake on the 9.5 mm = single platter statement in light of what Zaz said.