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Fujitsu is putting the finishing touches to a 200GB laptop drive which could be available in mobile computers by the end of the year.

The MHV2200BT is a 200GB 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drive (HDD). Fujitsu developed the drive to ~~make plenty of cash~~ address growing demands for mobile hard disk drives with the performance and capacity required for external HDD products as well as high-end audio/video computing applications such as gaming, video editing, audio recording and DVR functionality.

Within the rapidly expanding IT and consumer electronics (CE) industries, the need for hard disk drives featuring increasingly higher capacities continues to boom. Major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are already shipping products featuring the 160GB 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drive that Fujitsu launched in August 2005.

The latest offering from Fujitsu builds on nearly five years of SATA development on the 2.5-inch platform to provide best-in-class low power consumption, unmatched capacity at 200GB, high shock tolerance, and quiet operation, claims the company.

These features come together to allow manufactures to create high-end laptops that rival the power and performance of their desktop counterparts. The MHV2200BT also features a hardware accelerator that maximises Native Command Queuing (NCQ) performance, an important feature that enables the hard disk drive controller to intelligently and simultaneously queue and reorder up to 32 instructions, resulting in a significant improvement in overall hard disk drive performance.

Continuing industry advancement of the 2.5-inch SATA market, the MHV2200BT has a rotational speed of 4200rpm, average read and write times of 12 and 14ms respectively, and supports DIPM and HIPM. Staggered Spin Up and Active LED are also supported, and it sports a read/write power consumption of just 1.6-Watts. It also has an operating shock of 300G (2ms).

In addition, the Fujitsu MHV2200BT hard disk drive is RoHS compliant. RoHS is the European Union's directive for eliminating certain hazardous materials in the manufacturing of electrical and electronic equipment.

Fujitsu expects to begin shipping the 200GB hard drive suitable for use in laptop computers in the third quarter of this year.

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