[PLUG-TALK] Oversize 2.5" Hard Drive

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, alan wrote:

> Actually the sizes are 12mm, 9.5mm and 6.35mm.  The 6.35 was made only by
> Toshiba for the Toshiba Libretto, but also used in some of the tiny laptop
> systems.  I don't know if they still make them in that form factor.

   My 10G Travelstar is 100mm long, 69mm wide, and 12mm thick. I had a
Libretto for a while; great little computer, but I couldn't type on that
tiny keyboard.

> The 12mm drives are also pretty rare.  You only saw them on real old laptops.

   Well, I guess that IBM built these in Texas, where everything is bigger.

Rich

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