The latest SpinPoint laptop drive from Samsung boast 500GB capacity and now is reported already available in France. The 9.5mm drive will charge you $306 if you want to replace your current drive.
The Samsung SpinPoint M6 500GB just make the dreaming Terrabyite laptop getting closer to end users. It means you can bring almost all your data wherever you go, at least based on todays multimedia file size. What do you think?
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Fujitsu confirmed yesterday about the development of 320 GB hdd with transfer speed up to 300 MB/s. The HDD, which is from MHZ2 BH series, developed for PCs, laptops, and other electronic devices. Supporting S-ATA 3.0 Gb/s, this HDD is the answer to the needs of high level performance computing to accommodate heavy volumes of multimedia data.
As the latest development of 2.5″ HDD from Fujitsu, The MHZ2 BH consumes power at only 1.9 watts or at the lowest level in the world. The shipment is scheduled on February 2008.
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The new Toshiba high-end 2.5-inch HDD, MK-49GSY will be available in range between 80GB and 200GB capacity. Boasting 7,200 RPM, the new MK-49GSY support the Serial ATA interface at a 3.0 Gbps data transfer rate. And additionally, the free-fall sensor options are available on some models.
“Our global collaboration and new architectural platform greatly accelerated our ability to deliver industry-leading 2.5-inch capacity, while introducing a broad array of 2.5-inch product offerings,” said Scott Maccabe, vice president and general manager of Toshiba Storage Device Division. “Toshiba’s engineering innovation has positioned us competitively for the future and demonstrates our long-term commitment to addressing the growing demand for capacity and feature-rich storage solutions for digital data, as end users continue to embrace video and multimedia applications.”
All the announcement taken from the Toshiba press release, and as this …
What will you do with 300GB storage, if you do multimedia tasking in your daily work that always produce large files, i think the new 300GB Fujitsu HDD may help you solving the problem. Now they supply the HDD for Asus A7s, G2s and W2W series, but it should be adopted by other laptop manufacturer too.
The new Fujitsu HDD comes MHX2300 code name and measure 2.5-inch. The HDD also compatible with RoHS and suitable for use as internal storage for digital TVs. Coming with low power consumption, the hdd also low noise.
I found an useful article for Mac users who has storage limitation problems. I know that 100GB storage sometime just not enough for today’s multimedia tasking. I am not a hardware geek but i just want to amplify something that possibly interesting for some people.
And what? This a story quote about adding a second HDD to MacBook Pro by Eric Cheng. He installed an additional MCE Optibay Hard Drive (160GB) as a second drive and then he created a striped RAID 0 array using the two drive. All the works was done successfully in about 15 minutes and the benchmark result is excellent. I guess you want to try it.
MCE Optibay Hard Drive’s Features:
- Capacities of 80GB, 100GB, 120GB, and 160GB
- High Performance Spindle Speeds of 5400RPM and 7200RPM
- Bootable
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SSD (Solid State Disk) drives has some advantages compare to the traditional disk drives. SSD has faster start-up, faster read times, and lower read/write latency time. With this reason, Dell start featuring SSD drives to its new laptops: Latitude D420 and D620ATG. Beside its advantages, the SSD price considered to be higher than a common HD (around 40 times of traditional mechanical drives). Both laptop available in the retail store now, and upgrading to the 32GB SSD will cost $549.
About SSD (Wiki’s version): A solid state drive (SSD, also called solid state disk) is a data storage device that uses non-volatile memory (NAND) such as flash, or volatile memory such as SDRAM, to store data, instead of the spinning platters found in conventional hard disk drives. While not technically “disks” in any sense, these devices are so named because they are …
Addonics technologies (www.addonics.com) provide adapters which allows users to replace IDE/SATA Hard Drives with Compact Flash Media. CF (compact Flash) is claimed to be more resistant from shock/vibration, consume less power, and more reliable than traditional 2.5″ IDE/SATA hard drives.
“With the increased capacity and lowering costs of flash media, replacing the hard drive with CF as a boot drive is now a viable and advantageous alternative because CF offers lower power and no moving parts.” - Press Release
The device is compatible with all major operating system include Windows, Mac, Linux and Soliaris. And the most important thing, the CF card is transparent to the system, it is mean that the system detect the CF card just like an IDE/SATA drive, so it is bootable too.
The adapters available in two models IDE-CF and SATA-CF adapter which the pricing set at …
