Feb 26
Filed under: Storage
Considering that Fujitsu just unleashed a half-terabyte drive in the 2.5-inch form factor yesterday, Hitachi’s 320GB Travelstar 5K320 seems a bit underwhelming. Still, it’s pretty capacious in its own right, and does feature optional Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) and a 3Gb/s data transfer rate. The 5,400RPM SATA drive also includes “altitude-sensing Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC), an improved actuator latch and fourth-generation perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head technology,” and better still, only sucks down 1.8-watts of power when reading and writing. The good news? It’s shipping to customers worldwide as we speak. The bad? Who knows how pricey it’ll be.
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Source: Darren Murph
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Aug 21
Filed under: Laptops, Storage
Step aside Fujitsu, there’s a new 2.5-inch hard disk champ on the block by way of Toshiba. A world’s first 320GB 2.5-inch drive, in fact. The MK3252GSX drive spins a pair of 160GB platters at 5,600rpm with an 8MB buffer and 12ms average seek time over a 3Gbps SATA interface. So yeah, it’s just 20GB more data that the Fujitsu 300GB disk but that HDD spins at just 4,200rpm. Better yet, The Tosh drive stands just 9.5-mm tall — a full 3-mm less than Fujitsu’s 300 gigger; that’s about as thin as it gets in these 2.5-inch laptop drives. Look for the 320GB disk as a factory shipped option around November when Toshiba starts turning ‘em out for mass production.
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