750 GB Notebook Drives

[lsanderson]

Western Digital Ups Density With 750GB Notebook Drive

It's Areal Thing

March 30, 2010
By Gene Hirschel
Western Digital today has begun shipping its Scorpio Blue 750GB laptop hard drive, delivering new heights of areal density along with low heat and low power consumption designed to make it appealing for a wide range of uses.

The holy grail of hard drive manufacturers has always been capacity. With 375GB per platter for a total capacity of 750GB, Western Digital has achieved a maximum areal density calculated at over 600 gigabits per square inch, one of the highest in the industry. While WD was not the first to announce a 750GB 9.5mm (standard-height) 2.5-inch laptop drive, it is the first to actually ship one.

But Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) doesn't stop with increased capacity. The drive is also designed to keep cool and sip at the power supply, making it ideal for notebooks. More

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Among many other things, they're finding themselves competing with SSD drives. Some of those do pretty well at low power, and also fast, now.

External Hard Drives

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Nice, but I can't fill my 250 Gig drive. I don't have enough video, I guess.

B