How do they do this?

[Frizzo]

was just on newegg for a sec and saw this drive:

http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx?cm_sp=ShellShocker-_-22-145-587-_-01042013_1

this thing is flatter than an SSD yet it is mechanical and it has close to all of the specs that a top of the line mechanical desktop drive has? trying to understand how that is engineered.

 

[Frizzo]

damnit...the link is broken. they must have a shellshocker link and it's just displaying that. it was a hard drive with all the trimmings, 7200rpm, 32mb cache, 500gb, etc. yet it was as thick as a penny(a few pennies) and yet mechanical? how?

 

[Frizzo]

here it is again

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145587&Tpk=z7k500

 

[Hawkeye22]

The height is 7mm which is only 2mm less than a standard 9mm laptop drive. I don't see anythiing out of the ordinary or extraordinary about the drive.

 

[Frizzo]

hello, thank you, i'm not saying there is anything extraordinay obviously it's being mass produced....i'm just saying that i have not seen this before, and was hoping someone could explain how(mechanically) it is able to do what it does at that size.

 

[ss202sl]

As technology advances, tolerances decrease to the point where smaller things are possible. One of the benefits is increasing the data you can put on a single platter. Typically a 500GB drive uses 2 platters. This drive only uses 1 platter enabling it to be built smaller.