Western Digital's 250GB perpendicular Scorpio heads for laptops

by Darren Murph, posted May 21st 2007 at 2:48AM

Late last year, Western Digital decided to make the leap to the land of perpendicular magnetic recording with its 160GB Scorpio, and now the firm is stepping it up to a full quarter terabyte with its latest rendition. The 2.5-inch SATA drive fits nicely within the confines of most lappies, sports 8MB of cache, a 12-millisecond access time, spins at 5400RPM, and touts the company's WhisperDrive technology so you'll barely know its there. Additionally, the ShockGuard and SecurePark systems tag team to keep your data safe during turmoil, and the IntelliSeek system reportedly "calculates the optimum seek speed of the read / write head actuator to help reduce noise and power consumption." So if you're looking to up the storage capacity of your mobile machine, you can snag WD's latest right now for a penny under $200.

[Via MacWorld]

Filed under: Laptops, Storage

Tags: hard drive, HardDrive, hdd, intelliseek, laptop drive, LaptopDrive, perpendicular, perpendicular magnetic recording, PerpendicularMagneticRecording, pmr, scorpio, shockguard, western digital, WesternDigital

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Ricochet @ May 22nd 2007 3:18AM

Fantastic, I look forward to these being bundled with the next breed of laptops - it seems as though the gap is closing between desktop & laptop hard-drives, at least a little.

Here's hoping a Macbook-Pro revision in the near future may include this HDD-size as an option, along with Santa Rosa chipset and a LED backlit display...

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Eric Chiu @ May 22nd 2007 7:17AM

i don't get it.

Someone please kindly reply to me :

which one is faster for laptop?

5400 perpendicular or the old school one but with 7200 rpm?

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