Western Digital has to say that the world’s first hard disk with a thickness of just five millimeters on the market. The laptopschijf should be thinner designs of notebooks.
The 5mm drives are available in two variants. The WD Blue series is equipped with traditional hard drive technology, while the WD Black drives, hybrid drives with a built-in caching ssd. This so-called solid state hybrid drives, or WD Black sshd’s will as yet, however, only to laptopfabrikanten be delivered. The WD Blue drive is sold and got a suggested retail price of 89 dollars. Although the hard disk is a sata-600 interface, the used connector (not WD used a small sff-8784 connector.
The only 5mm thick WD Blue drive is a 2.5″hard drive with model number WD5000MPCK. The drive has a single platter and has a capacity of 500GB. The platter is by a newly designed engine at 5400rpm rotated and the drive produces an average of 15 to 17dBA sound pressure. The drive weighs only 75 grams and verstookt up to 1.5 W during read and writes. The other drives in the WD Blue series have a conventional thickness of 7mm or 9.5 mm and capacities from 250GB to 1TB.
