Toshiba apparently is going to be first to market with a 100gb 2.5″ drive. Not only will that be the largest capacity 2.5″ hard drive, but apparently the drive will also be significantly queter, use less power and have increased shock resistance compared to current 80gb 2.5″ hard drives.
That should be impressive, as my ears can barely register any sound from my 2.5″ 80gb hard drive when it’s going full bore.
Still, it’s frankly disappointing to see how slowly 2.5″ drives are increasing in capacity. It’s nice to see 100gb drives, but how long am I going to have to wait for 200gb 2.5″ drives to become available?
Of course since desktops have dominated computer sales, R&D has tended to focus on improving 3.5″ drives. But with laptop sales taking an increasing chunk of computer sales, that could change and spur more development into 2.5″ drives.
There’s an article here speculating about companies producing enterprise 2.5″ hard drives, specifically SCSI implementations of such drives, but there higher capacities tend to be not as important as other factors.
So it looks like the 200gb 2.5″ drive is going to take a while to make it to market.
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