Low-cost 2.5-inch Hard Drives Coming For Netbooks

Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will be answering the clarion call to develop affordable 2.5″ hard drives that will find its place in netbooks and low-cost PCs next year, and the target price currently stands at a phenomenal 40-50% cheaper compared to existing 2.5″ entry-level models. This is great news, although we can expect a performance drop when it comes to the new models, but then again netbooks aren’t meant to be processing powerhouses in the first place, but more of a casual computing device that does all the basic computing tasks in a snap. We can expect to see the first of such low-cost hard drives for netbooks hitting the market sometime in the second half of next year, global recession or not.