While Hitachi-LG Data Storage makes pretty remarkable products as a team (like the recently unveiled HyDrive), Hitachi on its own is making moves in the desktop space, and its latest hard drive offering comes in 26% thinner than its predecessor.

Hitachi takes pride in its new Z-series hard drives for having a thickness of just a little over a quarter of an inch (0.27-inches, to be exact) while providing just as much storage space, speed and cache as its currently available 0.37-inch thick counterparts. The Hitachi Z-series is made up of a total of three different hard drives, namely, the Travelstar Z7K320 (a 7200rpm drive with 16MB cache), Travelstar Z5K320 (a 5400rpm drive with 8MB cache) and the CinemaStar Z5K320 (a 5400rpm drive with 8MB cache). The first one is intended for use in high-performance notebooks, the second one in low-power devices, and the third one for non-computing products such as set-top boxes, portable video players, DVR-enabled TVs and video surveillance systems.

Hard drives like this are just what manufacturers would need as they come up with new offerings, which for some reason seem to keep getting thinner and thinner with each new model. So don’t be surprised if you see any one of the three Z-series hard drive models in a new netbook or ultra-light laptop in the near future.

Via Computerworld

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SSD prices sure are dropping. Super Talent is going to be selling a pretty cheap solid state drive soon, and it will go for just US$65 a pop. For roughly the price of a 320GB drive you can get their 8GB SSD. Yes, I know it’s not something to celebrate but it’s cheap if all you need is a speedy boot drive.

The read/write for this puppy are 90MB/s and 30MB/s respectively. They are also going to sell 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions as well.

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The Mini 1000 netbook from HP originally launched with two storage options, 16GB SSD or 60GB hard drive but HP have updated the storage options available for the Mini 1000. It’s now possible to get the HP Mini 1000 with SSD memory of the original 16GB or with 32GB. Where as the hard drive option has only upgraded it’s 60GB hard drive. The 60GB version is no longer available to purchase from HP, but an 80GB hard drive option is.

For most netbooks, 80GB is pretty minimal, but HP use 1.8 inch hard drives instead of the usual 2.5 inch hard drive which makes prices for more higher storage, much more expensive. The speed of the hard drive however remains the same at 4200RPM.

Other customizable options for the HP Mini include a choice between 512MB of RAM or 1GB, 8.9 inch or 10.1 inch display, as well as a choice between a 3 cell battery or a 6 cell. There’s also an option to receive both batteries so you have a backup. Bluetooth is also an added option when purchasing the HP Mini.

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