Fujitsu Shows Serial ATA 2.5" Hard Drive

In the Fujitsu booth, they were showing a Serial ATA 2.5" 9.5mm hard drive that is currently targeted at blade servers. We asked the Fujitsu folks if this was a clear indication that we could soon expect Serial ATA on mobile platforms. They responded that, as far as they knew, no chipset has been planned to support serial ATA on the mobile platforms. This isn't to say that it isn't possible, it is just that no one is talking about doing it yet.

Yes, it is really a 2.5" 9.5mm Serial ATA hard drive from Fujitsu, which was a very big surprise.

In other news from Fujitsu, they have new 2.5" 9.5mm 5400 RPM mobile drives on the way. They don't yet have any idea when they will ship, but they will feature an 8MB cache in addition to the 5400 RPM speed increase.