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Pity it's smaller than the 

Adrian • Thursday 17th July 2008 10:38 GMT

the existing 500Gb laptop drives out there, available today. Otherwise it would be newsworthy !!!

Pity it actually fits common notebooks... 

Jan • Thursday 17th July 2008 11:26 GMT

...unlike those 12,5mm 500GB drives...

Pity you missed the Samsung one 

Matthew • Thursday 17th July 2008 11:54 GMT

Samsung already have a 500 GB 9,5 mm high drive. I've got one in my laptop - the extra breathing space is brilliant.

Still using spinning platters? 

MichaelG • Thursday 17th July 2008 12:34 GMT
Jobs Horns

Welcome to the 21st Century.

Seagate's 500GB notebook drives (9.5mm) will follow the Toshiba 4Q 2008 

Maryland, USA • Friday 18th July 2008 12:54 GMT

in 5400 and 7200rpm versions. The latter has 16GB of cache. Each is designed to withstand 1000g:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=null&vgnextoid=19549a9dafc0b110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD

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