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- Fujitsu Delivers Volume Production of its Mobile 2.5" Serial ATA Hard Disk Drives
San Jose, CA, April 28, 2005 — Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of hard disk drives and computer peripherals, today announced volume production of the world's first and only 2.5" Serial ATA (SATA) drives, with volume shipments to distribution partners beginning immediately. Since it was announced, the Fujitsu 2.5" SATA hard disk drives have redefined possibilities for manufacturers in emerging notebook, consumer application and enterprise storage markets.
Fujitsu unveiled the MHT2080BH series hard disk drives in January 2004 and became the world's first hard disk drive vendor to deliver the power of Serial ATA architecture in a 2.5" form factor. The hard disk drive features Native Command Queuing (NCQ), an important feature that intelligently and simultaneously coordinates up to 32 instructions to be queued and reordered by the hard disk controller, contributing to a significant improvement in overall performance.
Notebooks today, probably yer mainstream desktop in a couple of years.
The full press release at:
http://www.fujitsu.com/us/fcpa/news/pr/20050428-01.html
Note that HitachIBM also claims to have 2½ inch SATA drives.
