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    WD Ships World's First 5mm Laptop Hard Drive Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Jerry Jackson, Apr 23, 2013.

  1. Jerry Jackson

    Jerry Jackson Administrator NBR Reviewer

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    Western Digital (WD) today announced it is shipping the world's first ultra-slim 2.5-inch, 5 mm hard drives and solid state hybrid drives (SSHD), which are designed for integration into Ultrabooks and other slim devices and space-constrained computing environments. With 500 GB of storage capacity and models with high performance-enabling solid state hybrid drive technology, this new product line allows manufacturers and end users the ability to add high-capacity HDD storage to devices that previously could only use flash storage due to limited internal space.



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    The price is nice for 500GB, but it didn't seem to mention speed, so I'm going to assume 5400 RPM :(
     
    Rykoshet, Apr 23, 2013
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