Gizmodo: 200gb

Toshiba 200GB Portable Is About Capacity, Not Speed

www.gizmodo.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:00:00 EDT

There has been a ridiculous amount of news this past week about portable hard drives of the 2.5-inch variety. OWC introduced a 160GB 7200rpm portable. Samsung did one better announcing a 200GB 7200rpm 2.5-inch drive, but that was a tease: It would initially only be available to enterprise customers.

Today, Toshiba unveiled a 200GB USB-powered 2.5-inch portable drive, for the reasonable price of $230. It's got a sweet black finish and a ruggedized case, and like I said, it draws power from the USB jack so you don't need to carry around an extra AC adapter. There is one hitch, though, something not mentioned in the press release or other reports: More than likely, the drive spins at 4200rpm. If you've been in need of an ultraportable cyclone of crazy A/V data access, you're just gonna have to settle for 160GB or wait some more. Sorry. –Wilson Rothman

Toshiba Unveils 200GB Pocket Drive [PC Magazine]

200 Gigabytes of Perpendicular Love, Samsung Style

www.gizmodo.com — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:46:29 EDT

Seems like just yesterday when the world was all excited about OWC's packaging of a 2.5-in. 160GB 7200rpm drive Seagate Momentus drive with perpendicular recording capability. No time to enjoy that view: Samsung just upped the stakes with a 2.5-inch perpendicular-recording drive of its own. Capacity? 200GB. The company says the SpinPoint MP1 with SATA interface is currently only for enterprise customers; you folks at home will have to settle for the SpinPoint M5 Series, with single-disk options ranging from 60GB to 160GB, out in mid April, followed by a dual-disk 250GB config due later on.–Wilson Rothman

SAMSUNG Develops SpinPoint MP1 2.5inch Hard Disk Drives [Samsung]

Buffalo HD-PL200U2/UC: 200GB Drive for You, Butterfingers

Charlie White — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:30:00 EST

You can't be too rich, too thin or have too much disk space, so who wouldn't like this Buffalo HD-PL200U2/UC 200GB external USB drive that's also especially hardened for those who are rough on their kit?

There's not that much of a price premium on all that tough stuff, either, where it runs about $280. Not bad looking to boot. – Charlie White

Buffalo HD-PL200U2/UC shock proof 200GB hard drive [Newlaunches]

Such a Deal: Maxtor 200GB for $40

Charlie White — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:32:09 EDT

Our new friend at Bargain Jack found a great deal, a Maxtor 200GB internal hard drive for $40 shipped. It's an Ultra ATA/133 disk running at 7200RPM, and it might just be perfect for that array you've been thinking about building. We're liking this deal—Bargain Jack did the math for us, reminding us that we're talking about 63% off retail here.

What's the catch? You have to come up with $110, and then you'll get $70 back (form is linked below) as a rebate, and the offer ends tomorrow. Shipping is free, but if there's an Office Depot in your state, they'll clip you for the sales tax. Still, 200GB hard drive for $40-something? We'll take it. – Charlie White

Maxtor 200GB Internal Hard Drive [Office Depot, via Bargain Jack] Thanks, Jack!

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Toshiba 200GB Notebook Drive

Charlie White — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:24:28 EDT

Hard disk drives are holding more and more data, and now notebook hard drives aren't going to miss out on all the fun. Toshiba announced its MK2035GSS drive, a 2.5-inch SATA II hard disk for notebooks that crams 200GB into its tightly-packed perpendicularity.

At a slim 9mm thin, it will fit nicely into today's super-thin notebook form factors, but its 4200RPM spinnage won't be tremendously popular with video editors. For the rest of us, its 200GB will be plenty of space to take lots of porn on the road. Toshiba didn't mention its price or when it would be available, but we won't be truly happy until we can get a flash drive at this size, speed and price range. – Charlie White

MK2035GSS, the 200GB 2,5" HDD perpendicular from Toshiba [Akihabara News]

TDK To Develop 200GB Blu-ray Disc

Charlie White — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:42:07 EDT

TDK confirmed that it's working on a 200GB Blu-ray disc—that's four times the capacity of the largest first-generation dual-layer Blu-ray blanks that are just about to be released worldwide. TDK already showed a next-generation four-layer Blu-ray disc with 100GB of storage in May of last year.

No target date was given for the release of these larger-capacity discs, but the announcement does remind us of one thing: this Blu-ray format can scale up to some mind-boggling capacities. Impressive. You could back up your entire hard drive on one of these things.

TDK working on 200GB Blu-ray disc [TechDigest]