Fujitsu Japan today announced a new line of 2.5-inch drives. The new MBD2 RC and MBE2 RC series boast a speed of 10,025 and 15,000 RPM and Fujitsu claims that these drives are 60% faster than the current set of 2.5-inch drives. The drives use perpendicular magnetic recording, support 6GB/s SAS (Serial-attached SCSI) that allows the drive to transfer data at speeds of up to 600MB/s.
The 10,000 RPM drive will come in capacities of up to 300GB while the 15,000 RPM drive is limited to 147GB only. Though both the drives will come out by the first half of 2009 don’t expect it to be cheap since Fujitsu is targeting corporates with their offering and not an average consumer.
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