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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
3,869 views, 8 comments

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

owc mercury-on-the-go

OWC's Triple-Interface Mercury-on-the-Go 500GB HDD

The Mercury-On-The-Go from OWC is a somewhat tempting three-way connectible 500GB portable HDD. Component-wise there are no surprises, under the hood is a 2.5" 5400 RPM Hitachi Travelstar 5K500 with an 8MB cache. With Firewire 400/800 and USB 2.0 you get three-way connectivity and bus power. More »

8:00 PM on Fri Apr 18 2008
By Chris Magor
5,956 views, 25 comments

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 »

storage

Intel Bringin' SSD Drama: 160GB Capacity, 50% Price Drop

We already told you about Intel's new ultramobile SSDs, but their tiny size means high cost and low capacities, only up to 16GB. That's why the company promised SATA-II SSDs in the 1.8" and 2.5" sizes with capacities up to 160GB, with read and write speeds exceeding Samsung's 100MB/s and 70MB/s, respectively. Best of all, Intel says its goal is to drive down the currently exorbitant prices of solid-state storage to something less punitive, predicting two subsequent 50% drops in 2009 and 2010. [Daily Tech]

7:30 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Wilson Rothman
7,331 views, 20 comments

Latest by 1roll20s: It'll probably be awhile yet before SSD replaces HDD for mass storage. I'm not taking application space, but the terabyte or two you want for video and audio storage. HDD is down near $0.20 a GB and even $2.50 a more »

storage

Toshiba Speeds 1.8-Inch Drives Up to 5400rpm

The bitch about using 1.8" drives in computers is that they run at a sluggy 4200rpm, as opposed to the 5400rpm commonly clocked in 2.5" laptop drives. Toshiba today announced a 1.8" drive that runs at 5400rpm in capacities of 80GB (MK8016GSG) and 120GB (MK1216GSG). More »

12:12 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Wilson Rothman
2,799 views, 23 comments

peripherals

Self-Powered eSATA On the Way; Power Bricks Everywhere Shudder In Fear

The Serial ATA Standards guys just approved a bus-powered eSATA spec that may see the light of day as early as late summer or early fall. This comes as a relief since eSATA is making its way into the mainstream via the home-theater realm (as DVR add-ons), where demands for the power brick to just go the hell away are higher than ever. I'm thinking of all those home-theater beauty shots that feature a thin, wall-mounted plasma and the single surround-sound bar, but always leave out the growing rat's nest on the floor directly below. Thanks, eSATA, for doing your part! Now let's see if TiVo and others buy in. [ExtremeTech]

10:47 AM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By Wilson Rothman
2,908 views, 11 comments

Latest by EQC: REILAOS: Yah...but hard drives don't eat much power. Doesn't the PCI Express 2.0 spec pass 150 Watts to the graphics card through the PCI Express slot? Even the 1.0 spec, I think, passed 75 Watts through the more »

solid state drives

Micron's Future Concept of SSD is RAM-Module Like

In addition to Micron's traditional solid state drives announced today, they also showed off a concept for a SSD module that resembles RAM in physical design and would fit into a similarly designed port. It's obvious but genius: while the SSD drives with SATA interfaces are terrific because they can be used in current laptops with no mods, the real performance of flash mem is only going to be unlocked when we cast aside the legacy of spinning disks and their cases and interfaces and mount SSDs on the mobo like we do RAM modules. More »

3:37 PM on Wed Nov 28 2007
By Adrian Covert
4,189 views, 15 comments

Latest by MicronXD: I can see it now... "the wafer thin tablet PC".... god i wish technology advanced more quickly more »

ces preview 2008

SanDisk Vaulter 16GB SSD Sneaks In Via PCIe Port

Today SanDisk revealed Vaulter, a 8GB or 16GB flash drive that can hold your entire OS, designed to sit on the PCIe port inside a laptop. In Windows, this creates a separate letter drive, which speeds the hell out of your computer, without taking the place of your 2.5" SATA-connected HDD. It's not a Santa Rosa "Robson" thing either—it's a real drive, not some caching assistant. (In case you're wondering, Mac support is coming.) Performance acceleration comes from "pre-controlling the distribution of storage data between itself and the hard drive." The fact that it's on the PCIe port means that both storage devices can work in parallel. Now, the bad news: SanDisk is only offering it to OEM partners at first. We won't be able to buy them a la carte for a little while. [SanDisk]

9:05 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Wilson Rothman
10,951 views, 22 comments

Latest by Strahd414: @diacronic: I have to say though, I wouldn't complain about bluetooth for the EEE. I really want to nab one of these: [www.engadget.com] . more »

housecleaning

Drive eRazer Tabula Rasas Hard Drives, No Computer Required

Need to kill the data on a hard drive you have lying around but don't wanna bother hooking it up to a PC? Wiebetech's pocket-sized eRazer plugs directly into lonely hard drives and genocides whatever naughtiness you have have etched into it at a rate of 35MB/s, leaving a 250GB hard drive scorched earth in under two hours. More »

5:20 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007
By Matt Buchanan
8,165 views, 34 comments

ssd

Samsung Unveils New 64GB SATA II SSDs

Samsung is intent on leading the way in SSD adoption with their new 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64GB solid state drives featuring a super-fast SATA II interface. With a combination of speed, 100 MBps write speed and a 120MBps read speed and lower power consumption, it won't be long before we see these babies popping up in a lot more devices. Unfortunately, prices are still a barrier, and that is not expected to change when Samsung finally announces how much these drives will cost. [Akihabara News via SciFi Tech via Uberreview]

10:30 AM on Wed Nov 7 2007
By Sean Fallon
1,458 views, 1 comment

Latest by Ben Zvan: Isn't 1.8 what's in an iPod? more »

nextfest07

Sans Digital NAS with iTunes Support

At first glance the Sans Digital's MN2L NAS looks pretty standard. It has two SATA drive bays, USB2, Ethernet, and even FTP access. But what sets this NAS apart is the built in iTunes support. It can take your music files and dupe iTunes into thinking that it's just another PC and then streams the audio files to any PC/Mac running iTunes. This looks to be a great alternative running a separate PC as a dedicated server. The MN2L is available now and will set you back $299. [Product Page via Electronista]

6:15 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By blongo3
3,990 views, 4 comments

Latest by Worf: My Terastation Live 2TB (which I got for around $600 on sale) has a built-in DLNA and iTunes server as well. And it has RAID support, too... Shows up nice in iTunes... more »

cheap sata

Brando Ships Yet Another USB to SATA/IDE Combo Kit

Brando's making a cottage industry out of USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE adapters, with this one, and then this one that costs 40 bucks, and now the company's offering yet another one that costs $29 and appears to do just about the same thing. More »

11:15 AM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Charlie White
4,772 views, 8 comments

blazing speed

Mtron's Latest Solid State Drives the Fastest Ever Tested

Flash-based SSDs have come a long way since their 1995 introduction by msystems (now SanDisk). The problem constantly plaguing the motionless, rough-and-tumble drives has always been speed; even though reading data from any point on a flash drive should theoretically be faster than a conventional HDD, real-world performance just hasn't lived up to the hype...until now. Just how fast is Mtron's newest offering, the MSD-S2516? It posted speeds that surpassed even the 10,000rpm Western Digital Raptor. Hit the jump for the numbers. More »

10:11 PM on Wed Jul 25 2007
By kthompson
15,039 views, 21 comments

Latest by Delmarc: Wow this is super fast... is their any chance that i can get this installed in my head... Those seek times can surely help when my wife asks if I remember her birthday and all those other somewhat important days... more »

Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to halt production of IDE drives. Seagate will be SATA only in 2008 and beyond. [Ars ]

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home entertainment

Install Any SATA Hard Drive Into The PS3 (Because You Can?)

Japan's Kurouto Shikou insists that the 60GB hard drive found in the PS3 is too small. (It's from Japan, of course it's small.) To that end they've designed a SATA and eSATA slot for the system that lets you install third-party hard drives. You have to remove the built-in hard drive before installing the slot, but afterward your options are limited to however much you can spend on hard drives. (They're fairly cheap, by the way.) More »

8:45 AM on Fri Feb 2 2007
By Gizloco
13,924 views, 12 comments

Latest by pRoFiT: Yah as far as mp3s go. the 60 gig ps3 does not have enough room. On the other hand my ubuntu server with streaming mp3s should play fine from the ps3 web browser. :) I have about 280 gigs of more »

peripherals

Hitachi Travelstar 5K160: Bigger than Mikey, but Groundbreaking Anyway

Hitachi calls the hard drive "the new bling," as exemplified by its Microdrive 3K8 ("Mikey") worn by the sumptuous model here. This post is not about that, but now that we have your attention, get your mind out of the gutter and think about hard drives for a minute. While desktop hard drives have been making steady progress toward gargantuan capacities—think 750GB— 2.5-inch notebook drive capacities and their connections have been wallowing in the mire, until now. More »

10:04 AM on Thu Jul 20 2006
By Charlie White
1,027 views, 2 comments

Latest by Erzengel: If you keep watching the pic for some minutes, you´ll ventually find theres a hardive in there. What a clever ilussion effect!!! more »

peripherals

USB 2.0 To SATA/IDE Adapter With One-Touch Backup

Here's an adapter that makes any SATA or IDE disk function as a backup unit, and with its included PCClone EX Lite software it can back up your hard drive with the simple push of a button. More »

9:37 AM on Thu Jul 20 2006
By Charlie White
2,179 views, Comment

peripherals

Xeno 360 Connectivity Kit - Transfer Files From Your Xbox 360


Another kit's coming down the pipe to allow you to back up your files from your Xbox 360 hard drive, say, before sending the unit in for repair. The kit comes with a Optical Disc Drive Adapter, Xeno SATA HD Connection, and SATA-SATA cable. This allows you to "Effortlessly transfer files from your 360 hard drive to your PC without opening up the case! " More »

7:31 PM on Tue Jul 11 2006
By Jason Chen
5,025 views, 4 comments