The mainstream capacity of notebook internal hard disk drives (HDDs) will increase from 320GB in 2010 to 500GB in 2011, while netbook drives will be 320GB, according to Taiwan-based makers.
International vendors have offered 7mm-thin 2.5-inch HDDs for use in notebooks, the sources indicated. To encourage adoption by notebook makers, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is offering 7mm 2.5-inch 500GB HDDs for same prices as 9.5mm equivalents, the sources said.
Notebooks equipped with 7mm 2.5-inch 500GB HDDs will account for about 30% of all notebooks at the end of 2011, the sources noted.
