40MB Harddrives!

[cessna152]

As we expected, the hard drive's performance was excellent. A size of 40 MB is more than respectable for a 2.5" drive, and it trounced both competitors in the test. As far as we're aware, it's the fastest notebook hard drive to debut commercially. The excellent values are repeated in the other benchmarks.

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030813/mini-harddisks-01.html

I want one!:beer:

 

[Orsorum]

OMG, that's so 1337!

 

[Ynog]

What actually interesting though is both those Hitachi Travelstars in the picture say 60GB on them.
Not 40 GB.

 

[conjur]

heh...

But, 7200rpm...sweet! And I need to replace my laptop's 30GB drive.

 

[cessna152]

I wonder how loud they are. The harddrive in my laptop is loud.

 

[nightowl]

Someone has posted review of the drive in the SFF and Laptop forum. He said that is was almost as quiet as his previous drive.

 

[NogginBoink]

40 megabytes isn't a whole lot.

But 60 gigabytes isn't bad.

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: cessna152
I wonder how loud they are. The harddrive in my laptop is loud.

I wonder how hot they are. I have a 30GB travelstar in my Dell Inspiron and that sucker gets hot.

 

[conjur]

There's a 60GB Toshiba laptop drive posted in the Hot Deals forum...16MB cache! But only 5400 RPM...runs a little over $200.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

As usual, THG is too busy blowing product reps for samples to check their grammar.

- M4H

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
40 megabytes isn't a whole lot.

But 60 gigabytes isn't bad.

You don't say...

so 2.5" drives now in 4200, 5400 and 7200rpm varieties....would be nice to see some heat & power usage comparisons between several different examples of each varieties as this is quite important for laptops users...hell throw in weights and any height diffs too.

Jamie

EDIT:

A size of 40 GB is more than respectable for a 2.5" drive

They've fixed it!

 

[ElFenix]

i remember 20 MB drives

 

[neutralizer]

I remember my 1 Gb Bigfoot... those were cool .

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
OMG, that's so 1337!

More like 1987

 

[ElFenix]

good old tom's

Set-top loudspeakers, DVD recorders with time-shifting functions, car hi-fi systems, notebooks, tablet PCs, web servers: the list of possible uses is enormous.

whats a set top loudspeaker? timeshifters use 3.5" drives. maybe the next 3 all use 2.5" drives, but web servers?

 

[SithSolo1]

Make these bad-boys hot swappable and they could make one hell of a car mp3 storage medium.

If I'm slow in thinking this, sorry. I'm classified as SPeCIAL.

 

[Lonyo]

Don't SCSI drives use 2.5" platters, meaning there are 15,000rpm 2.5" platter drives?

 

[nightowl]

I believe that the first 15K Cheetahs had 2.5" platters. I do not know if they moved to 3.5" platters to increase capacity or not.

 

[notfred]

Yikes, over $300.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
i remember 20 MB drives

My first computer had a 10MB drive... it was some reallllly old IBM computer. I thought I would 1337 and install Windows 3.1, but there wasn't enough room.