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Good value and high capacity, but performance is average

Now a hard drive manufacturer is talking about switching to the super fast solid state drives.

Hitachi DZ-MV100E

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Sharp are finalising plans to commercially produce quad and triple layer Blu-ray discs capable of 100GB and 8x read speeds using new disc materials and improved laser technologies

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Monster storage; plus a choice of professional SAS or consumer SATA interfaces and reliability to boot.

8cm Blu-ray BD-R write-once and BD-RE rewritable discs due in September.

Offering 40GB of storage, the Iomega drive is very small for its capacity, measuring a mere 8.89 x 7.37 x 1.27cm. It weighs just over 99 grams, which means it's unnoticeable in your pocket. The internal drive is a 40GB Hitachi TravelStar C4K40 -- a new form-factor hard drive, measuring a mere 1.8 inches across (a normal notebook hard drive is 2.5in, a desktop drive 3.5) -- and only about 7mm thick.

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Blisteringly fast but expensive for the capacity

Behemoth server and PC storage, with reliability features too.

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