RSSFujitsu Unveils 300GB Laptop Drive
By Nate Mook | Published December 11, 2006, 3:32 PM
Fujitsu continues to push the limits of moble storage, announcing Monday 250GB and 300GB 2.5-inch laptop hard drives that utilize perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The Serial ATA drives spin at 4200RPM and have low power consumption, while improving shock tolerance.
The MHX2300BT series represents Fujitsu's second generation drives with perpendicular recording, and promises near-silent operation. "Our commitment to R&D has not only spurred the development of the industry's first 2.5-inch 300GB capacity perpendicular hard disk drive, but it will allow Fujitsu to continue to achieve these aggressive milestones in advance of the rest of the industry," remarked Fujitsu vice president Joel Hagberg. Both drives are slated to ship in the first quarter of 2007.
4200 RPM is unacceptable.
5200 RPM is barely acceptable.
Get with it.
Score: 0
well there are more and more laptops running two hard drives now, a 4200 rpm drive isnt too bad as a secondary mass storage drive, with say a 7200 rpm 100gb drive as primary.
Score: 0
This is pretty impressive. I thought I heard of talk of vendors just starting with the 200's now I guess they are king of the hill for laptop hard drives. Guess seagate better get off its duff now. People are beating them.
Score: 0
A terrabyte flash drive in a laptop. Now you're talkin'.
Score: 0
if you are talking about that atomchip corp laptop it was a hoax you know.
Score: 0
Yes, but that supposedly had two terrabytes, which did seem a little excessive.
Score: 0
iono..
what data do you put on your laptop?
my desktop got like 800gigs
but my laptop seems fine with 40gigs or so.
Score: 0
...so you can lose even MORE sensitive data!
Score: 0
300 gigs for a laptops is a sweet deal. But personally I would sacrifice 200 gigs for performance. But many people out there don't really care if it their drive takes 5 minutes to boot. But it's only a matter of time before that 300gb drive spins at 7200 rpm.
Score: 0
Large numbers on cheap laptops are crowd pleasers...
I agree - I'd take a hit on space for higher speed without a single thought. The improvement in performance on a laptop with a 5400 RPM drive to a 7200 RPM is phenomenal.
Score: 0
"The Serial ATA drives spin at 4200RPM"
Just what the world needs; more slow drives.
Score: 0
Exactly. What are they thinking? I thought 5400 is the standard. 4200 just slow the system down so much, not even funny.
Score: 0
What are they thinking?
Maybe external USB bus powered hard drive for archives/user data? You really don't need your mp3's, movies, documents, photo album on your boot drive.
Score: 0
umm... that 300GB hard drive spinning at 4200rpm is probably faster than the 7200rpm 120gb drive...
transfer rate is a function of both rpm and data density on the platter...
think of it this way.. why does the rpm on ur car go up and down when you know you are going faster? :D
Score: 0
hardly. I see desktop systems half the speed of a laptop smoke it simply because of the drive's slow read speed. The laptop had higher specs too, more ram etc. Apps booted faster on the desktop and everything. so dont tell me its faster even though its slower.
Score: 0
You should really do maths. I believe the example was quite clear. 4.000RPM with the 1st gear of a car is slower than 2.000RPM with the 3th one.
Do you *really* believe a 10GB "barracuda" (10.000RPM) 3.5'' SCSI drive would be faster than a 120GB 4200 2.5'' SATA one?
Note also that higher speeds -> higher power usage -> less battery life (2.5'' is for laptops or portable devices).
Score: 0