Fujitsu announces 500 GB Portable Drive

Fujitsu offer standard half-height drive terabyte laptop.

The ability war on the hard drive of the industry is in full force and desktop units are not the only ones to benefit. Current notebook 500 GB hard drives are on the mark with the latest releases Hitachi and Samsung that only 6 months ago the highest capacity notebook weighed in units of 250 GB.

Today, Fujitsu announced its MHZ2 BT line notebook, which includes units of 400GB and 500 GB capacity to compete with the capacity of the place at the forefront of the market for portable drive.

The MHZ2 BT has a line of SATA 3.0 Gb / s interface and 8MB buffer. The rotational speed of 4200RPM watches where he can be a bit slow compared with 5400RPM, units of 500 GB Hitachi and Samsung. Despite the rotational speed, the average time to time you find writing is read while 14ms average seek times of 12ms on the clock, which is comparable to the competition.

The unit BT MHZ2 dimensions conform to the height of the unit standard 9.5mm that fits all laptops compared to the height of 12.5mm unit of Hitachi 5K500 series and E5K500 units. The reason for the extra 3 mm high on the Hitachi drives are mainly due to the extra dishes required to meet the capacity of 500 GB, while Fujitsu 166GB fit three plates in their units.

Fujitsu MHZ2 BT line of notebook units shines in the area of energy consumption, as it only consumes 1.8W of power during read / write operations in a 3.0Gb/sec SATA configuration and 0.13W and 0.5W in idle mode and respectively.

Fujitsu aims for a launch in late May 2008, around the same time-frames such as Samsung’s planned launch of its SpinPoint series M6 and pricing has not yet been released. Fujitsu also projects sales of the line of BT MXZ2 to hit 20 million units in fiscal year 2008.