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Posted by John Doue on October 23, 2007, 4:11 am
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> Barry Watzman wrote:
>> According to the specs, this thing is 26.1mm thick .... that is a
>> standard [US] 1-inch DESKTOP hard drive. They are readily available
>> (320GB, 7,200rpm, 16MB cache) and I can buy them at Sam's Club for
>> about $80 [US dollars].
>>
>> This contradicts your description of the drive as "thinner" (0.4
>> inch), but the specs that you linked to give the thickness as 26.1mm,
>> which is more than twice 0.4 inches.
>>
>>
>> John Doue wrote:
>>> One of my machines (not quite a laptop since it is a Acer Power 1000
>>> but close enough!) uses a thinner type of SATA Hard disk (close to
>>> 0.4inch I believe) from Western Digital. (see >
>>> http://www.wdc.com/fr/products/Products.asp?DriveID=233).
>>>
>>> I am having trouble finding a supplier for disks of that type. Does
>>> anyone know a source (please spare me ebay)?
>>>
>>> I cannot find any way to contact Acer nor WD by email, both make
>>> carefully sure not to be bothered by customers ...
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>
> The new 2.5 inch SATA drives are, indeed, about 3/8" thick (9 mm). These
> are being sold as both notebook and desktop drives. HP is supplying
> Samsung and Fujitsu drives in this format for their new notebooks and
> some desktops.
>
> Q
Thanks for all the answers. Basically, being new to SATA disks, I did
not know what to look for and I badly underestimated their thickness.
--
John Doue
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