[Ti] 100gb Drives Announced!

[kalirhe at umdnj.edu]

Quoting "Dr. Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch>:

> At 13:23 -1000 22/4/04, aron wrote:
> >At 10:49 AM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
> >>http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2004_04/pr2201.htm
> >>
> >>I don't know about you guys, but I'll be picking one of these up the
> second
> >>they're available under $500
> >
> >Oh no, it's 4200RPM though.
> 
> Aron - exactly my thought !  Since I have a 5400 rpm 80 Gb drive in 
> my Al-book, it would offer me no advantage (since a 25% size increase 
> running 23% slower does not seem real progress to me).

Unless your concern is mainly with information storage capacity issues (vs
retrieval) - in which case you'll be doing 20% better with the 100 GB
drive.

Best,

Henry