I just bought an SSD to replace a failed hard drive in my laptop. It arrived yesterday. I measured the supposedly 2.5 inch drive, still in its plastic bag, with a measuring tape, and got 71 mm. Figuring that 1 mm is from the bag, I think we should call it a 70 mm drive. 2.5 in = 63.5 mm, so I looked for where the figure came from.
The 2.5 in turns out to be the size of the disk inside the drive. The size of the drive is actually 2.75 in × 100 mm (69.85 mm is an exact conversion). Since there is no disk in an SSD, the term referring to the size of the disk should be abandoned. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_drive_form_factors for a table. Pierre -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman. _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
