Notebook Sata drives

[SoundTheSurrender]

Any ideas? I have a 80gb hard drive and it's to small.

 

[Ultralight]

The largest I have seen so far is 160gb.

 

[Pabster]

Fujitsu has a 300GB coming. I believe it is 5400rpm.

I'm more interested in the 200GB+ 7200rpm flavors.

 

[Silversierra]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/sams...laptop-drive-200gb-at-7200rpm-a-world/

 

[SuperNaruto]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7280 - Fujitsu 250GBs
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5312 - Fujitsu 300GBs - Only problem is 4200.. but with PMR, it'll make up in speed

 

[Ataraxia]

Hitachi 7k200 (7200rpm, @ 200 gb)
Seagate 250gb (5400, @ 250gb)

Both are shipping, but only available to Dell/Alienware now. (You can buy the 250gb one from Dell Spare Parts directly though)

I'd get the former if SSDs don't come down in price before that thing comes out!

 

[Zepper]

Others beat me to it but I was gonna say that Toshiba and Fujitsu both have 200 and Fujitsu has 250 either coming or already out. Newegg has the Toshiba 200 (only 4200 rpm but will read faster than an 80 or 100 at 5400 due to the extra data per track - will save energy too) and many 160GB units.

7200 rpm 2.5" drives aren't really for mobile use - suck too much power.

.bh.

 

[SuperNaruto]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7377

 

[Matthias99]

7200 rpm 2.5" drives aren't really for mobile use - suck too much power.

I thought I saw a review a while back where they compared power usage and it seemed about the same. The 7200RPM drives use a few watts more when spun up -- but since they're faster, they actually spend less time spun up at full speed to fulfill the same I/O requests, so overall it kind of evened out. The 4200RPM drive with PMR might be better, though.