Hitachi has been shipping a 500GB 2.5-inch (laptop size) hard drive for some time ($239.99 at ZipZoomFly), but its 12.5mm height restricts its use to Apple’s 17-inch MacBook Pro and similarly large PC laptops.
Samsung’s SpinPoint M6, meanwhile, is the world’s first 500GB 2.5-inch drive with a 9.5-mm profile, letting considerably more laptops hit the internal [...]

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Can you believe HP is selling a Linux based Media Server? And for only $299?
This HP MV2120 500GB Media Vault is one super cool little linux-based media server.
The specs are thus:

2 Drive Bays/ Accommodates Any 3.5 Inch SATA HDD
2 USB 2.0 Ports/ 1 Front/ 1 Rear/ Gigabit Ethernet Port
500GB/ 7200 RPM SATA [...]

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