14 DAY TRIAL // When I saw the words “world's thinnest 1 TB HDD,” I thought I was about to write about another 5mm-thick HDD, but it turns out 5mm units are just too small to hold so much information.
Either that or the cost would have been too high if Western Digital bothered to cram everything down to that size.
Anyway, the new HDD from WD is called WD Blue and comes in 320 to 1 TB capacities.
It is intended for thin and light systems, plus notebooks/ultrabooks of course. The form factor is the good old 2.5 inches.
WD Blue 7 mm comes with ShockGuard, WhisperDrive and StableTrac technologies (for shock tolerance, cool/quiet performance, stability respectively) and Dual Stage Actuators (improve positional accuracy over the data track).
The 1 TB WD Blue 7mm is priced at $139 / €106 – 139.