[Tfug] USB drives

[Matt Jacob]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 08:41, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> No.  It's yet another of those wonky issues that are common
> in this industry.  Apparently, manufacturers have seen the
> market move to smaller (physical size) drives -- some desktop
> machines even use "laptop" drives -- yet the demand for
> capacity has increased.  So, the larger capacity drives are
> being produced in the smaller form factors.

Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. There are a few 500G laptop drives
out there, but the most common size for large laptop drives is 320G.
The sweet spot for 3.5" drives seems to be about 1T at the moment.

Your rotational speeds will also always be slower with laptop drives.
There are some 7200 RPM drives on the market---with 5400 RPM being the
most common---but nothing like the 10k or 15k RPM desktop drives.

Matt