New IBM TravelStar drives announced

I reckon it'll be some time before these are in general availability, but there is an announcement today of a 48Gb drive from IBM with some significant new technology.

> News.com: IBM's new notebook drives emphasize quiet

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Empeg Mk. 2 #626, 18Gb blue | Kenwood KMD-X92. 2000 VW Passat wagon.

http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/hdd/20010327.htm

That is the IBM announcement that contains all the real details.

48Gb sounds very nice :) It can hold almost as many albumns in wav format as my original 4Gb model can hold in mp3 format. Are we going to see lossless compression e.g. shorten support in the empeg soon?

"These efforts result in acoustical noise reduction, improved shock tolerance and superior reliability."

Sounds ideal for the empeg. IBM already had the highest shock ratings,. The new ones have :
800 G/1ms nonoperating shock
180 G/2 ms operating shock

I'm just drooling at the possibility of 96gb in an Empeg. Everything encoded either lossless or at an incredibly high bit rate. With taxi space left over, too.

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Tony Fabris

Naw... with increased storage we will just want to put more on there.. maybe video files or something crazy like that. Dolby Digital or DTS 5.1, who knows. But, then the great cache on the empeg would be comprimised. Or how about a backup onto a spare drive within the empegcar? Anyway, anyone have any idea what the price will be on these? Hopefully, it will push the price of the 30gig models below $200. THAT would be nice!

12gig Mk. II BLUE
Detroit, MI USA
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There was an interview on CNet with the Portable Drive Division head honcho at IBM, and he said that it would raise the price of a laptop about $100 with the 48Gig drive... so i'd bet the price point will be around $325-400 at the time of introduction. And it will be damn nice if the price of the 30 Gigs drop, sign me up for one-a-dem.


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Great idea, maybe we could hookup a DVD drive to the 2nd IDE channel :)

Walter
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Reg:1934/Mk1:158-6Blue/Mk2:380-12Blue

I like the idea of a back up drive in the empeg. I'm still afraid of loosing all my countless hours (due to a hd crash) that i've spent on the empeg making my playlists, and naming all my mp3s, etc....

-CHiP

Does anyone know a price of the 48GB?

Anyone maybe a link to a cheap(!!) 30 GB 2,5"? (Maybe less than 300 US$)
THX

TeeMcBee
Got my Mk2! # 080000143

I was originally planning (before I started loading more and more music on the empeg) to try using the second drive as a mirror. Has anyone ever pulled this off before???

Paul G.
SN# 090000587 (40GB Green)

hrm.. I wonder if someone should compile raid support into the kernel :)

12gig red mk2 -- 080000125

I've just ordered two 72Gb Drives for my EMPEG,should be interesting ;)

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MK II, (Blue but should be Amber) SN: 118

Yep, it'll be very interesting to see you fit them inside

Rob

Uh oh. I think you ordered the wrong kind of drive.

I've just ordered two 72Gb Drives for my EMPEG,should be interesting

I see a few options here:

1) There was a typo on the order page, and you've just gotten a pair of 7.2 gig drives.

2) As the rest of us suspect, you got 3.5" desktop drives. Those will be neat for your desktop computer but won't do your empeg any good. Perhaps you should read this.

3) Someone's invented 72 gig laptop drives that no one else here knows about. If that's the case, WHERE DID YOU GET THEM!?!?!

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Tony Fabris

waht, u cant even put reguler disc driuves in an empeg? u can put them in a neo 35.

Rex

4) You fitted an outbound IDE-cable and connected it to an external file cabinet.

Frank van Gestel

lol

Yeah, just be REAL careful not to bounce them around a lot.
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