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Hitachi's 2.5-Inch HDD Does 7200rpm Speeds With 5400rpm Power

Fujitsu might have been the first to introduce a 2.5" 7200rpm hard drive with 320GB capacity, but Hitachi is hot on their trail. Today, Hitachi announced that they too have a quick lil'-drive, the Travelstar 7K320. The HDD will support the same SATA 3Gbps interface as the Fujitsu, but will supposedly use less power. With only a 1.8 watt read/write power draw and a 0.8 watt low power idle, Hitachi claims the 7200rpm 7K320 power consumption is on par with their 5400rpm models. So if you were set on getting a faster 2.5" 320GB HD for your notebook, Hitachi's version should be available in a few weeks with a $219 price tag. Press release after the jump.

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3:01 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Christopher Mascari
3,870 views, 8 comments

Latest by JaXs: Nuts, it still draws too much for a USB enclosure. more »

storage

Fujitsu's 7200rpm 2.5-Inch Drives First to Hit 320GB

Today, Fujitsu introduced its MHZ2 BJ drives (heh, heh...BJ), the first 2.5" 7200rpm hard drives to reach the 320GB capacity. They'll be available at the end of June, for an as-yet unannounced price, and will support the SATA 3Gbps interface. So now when go trick out your laptop, you're gonna have a full-on headache trying to decide between maximum HDD spin speed, maximum capacity—at this point 500GB at 5400rpm— and of course the higher-priced SSD alternatives. [Press Release]

11:08 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Wilson Rothman
1,738 views, 14 comments

Latest by hkicedude: I love to have one of these but the current laptop market 80% of the laptop only use 5400rpm drives with larger GB than the 7200rpm drives. I wonder if it is even profitable with such a small market share, more »

roundup

Afternoon News: Daily Dose of Harry Potter, Brit Drivers Going To Jail For Talking, Microsoft & Freetards Makin' Deals and More

• Warner Bros. set up a hotline to replace HD DVDs found in Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire Blu-ray packages. I love Harry Potter news. [HD Digest]
• British drivers caught using their cellphones may be sent to jail for two years and face an extremely scary sounding "unlimited fine" under new laws published today. [Reuters]
• Samsung is shipping a 320GB 2.5" hard drive for notebooks. It retails for $250. [Tom's Hardware]
• Microsoft signed a deal with open source software company Samba as a result of sanctions for anti-trust violations from the European Commission. The Borg and freetards together? Someone check to make sure Fake Steve is still breathing. [NYT]

3:59 PM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Benny Goldman
1,670 views, 14 comments

Latest by gokor: @diverguy: Really, the majority of US readers refer to it as the Philosopher's Stone? That's news to me...meaning I've never heard anyone call it that before. Not even a fuss that they used a different name. Are you sure more »

time machine hdd swap

The Secret of the Time Machine-Assisted Hard Drive Swap

There's never been a better time to void the warranty on your MacBook Pro and upgrade to one of those sweet 2.5" WD Scorpio 320GB drives. That was what made me throw caution to the wind and attempt a Time Machine-assisted swap. The good news is, it works as billed. You get a bit-for-bit transfer to the virgin drive with minimal fuss. The bad news is, if you don't use a little trick we discovered today, you probably won't get it to work at all. More »

12:00 AM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Wilson Rothman
47,461 views, 60 comments

Latest by Raygo: Followed these instructions for a full system restore and my MBP will not get the gray "Appled" screen and keeps restarting. Re-erased, Re-restored and had ACL errors come up and would not let me know repair disk permissions Could someone help? Thanks more »

storage

Western Digital Finally Pops 320GB USB-Powered Passport Drive

When you saw the news that WD launched a 320GB Scorpio laptop drive, you knew it was only a matter of time before a bus-powered Passport external version showed up. It'll come with WD Sync software (featuring 128-bit encryption; Windows only of course), deliver 480Mbps transfer speeds, and you can pick from five colors: glossy black, glossy white, metallic red, vibrant(?) green and metallic pink. Here's the best part: the 320GB Passport will only set you back $230—or less. [WD]

8:34 AM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Wilson Rothman
3,873 views, 18 comments

Latest by BarkoNorwang: And that was 5 days ago (the end of November) more »

storage

Western Digital Ships 320GB 2.5-Inch Drives for Laptops

It's official: you can now buy a 320GB drive from WD for your laptop, and for just $200. The WD Scorpio SATA drive spins at 5400rpm and has a 8MB cache. The press release says it's "extraordinarily quiet while running at cool operating temperatures." I hope that doesn't mean it's extremely loud while running at super high temperatures. The important thing is, this timing coincides with the arrival of Mac's Time Machine and the Windows Home Server, two easy ways to offload your laptop's entire contents, swap out the internal drive, then restore your old image without a lot of tinkering. I know some of you like tinkering, but this is the future. [WD]

9:41 AM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By Wilson Rothman
11,192 views, 19 comments

Latest by glebec: Oh good... I just got a MBP (Oct. 1) with 160GB 7200rpm and after the fact I realized that wasn't going to be enough in the long term. Now the question is, when to upgrade (and cut off Apple support)? more »

Toshiba's 320GB Notebook Drive Biggest Ever Toshiba released 320GB SATA HDDs in 5400 and 7200 RPM flavors (MK-GSX and MK-GSY) series. They run on the 3-GBit SATA inteface, and support drive head parking on falls over 10 inches. [Gearlog]

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