That's Hawt: 500gb Laptop Drive, $195

[Kaido]

via eWiz

Previously only available in an enclosure for $309 at OWC.

This is currently the ONLY 500gb laptop drive that will fit standard laptops (9.5mm height). All of the other 500gb laptop drives are 12.5mm, which is not used in many modern laptops. This will fit your PC or Mac laptop as well as a Mac Mini. All hail mass storage!

 

[beyoku]

HMmm. THinks PS3

 

[aphex]

oooo NICE!

 

[Pabster]

In for 3.

Thanks for the heads-up!

 

[IvanAndreevich]

Review of the 250GB version here http://www.tomshardware.com/re...hdd-galore,1762-2.html

 

[WarhammerUC]

finally.. been waiting since march... retail msrp is 299, anything over that is a RIP OFF

 

[bond007taz]

i guess this may be a good deal in regards to money but the performance of any 5400 drive just sucks - find a 7200rpm drive

 

[ctcsoft]

Originally posted by: bond007taz
i guess this may be a good deal in regards to money but the performance of any 5400 drive just sucks - find a 7200rpm drive

just for storage though??

 

[dougp]

Originally posted by: bond007taz
i guess this may be a good deal in regards to money but the performance of any 5400 drive just sucks - find a 7200rpm drive

How about you find a 7200rpm 500gb HD for a laptop ... then we can talk.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: dreadpiratedoug

Originally posted by: bond007taz
i guess this may be a good deal in regards to money but the performance of any 5400 drive just sucks - find a 7200rpm drive

How about you find a 7200rpm 500gb HD for a laptop ... then we can talk.

Currently the 7200rpm laptop drives only go up to 320gb. Although, the newer 5400rpm drives are getting closer and closer in terms of performance to the 7200rpm drives. I wouldn't be surprised to see the speed statistics for the 500gb 5400rpm drive match older 7200rpm drives. Can't wait for some tests!

 

[beergeek]

Originally posted by: bond007taz
i guess this may be a good deal in regards to money but the performance of any 5400 drive just sucks - find a 7200rpm drive

A 7200rpm drive will also draw more power and generate more heat, both of which are problems on laptops. With enough RAM for a lot of caching and a good file system (can't speak to Window's on this point), the performance difference shouldn't be that significant for the normal laptop workloads (I wouldn't recommend it for heavy duty video production, but there are lots of reasons that is true...)

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: beergeek

Originally posted by: bond007taz
i guess this may be a good deal in regards to money but the performance of any 5400 drive just sucks - find a 7200rpm drive

A 7200rpm drive will also draw more power and generate more heat, both of which are problems on laptops. With enough RAM for a lot of caching and a good file system (can't speak to Window's on this point), the performance difference shouldn't be that significant for the normal laptop workloads (I wouldn't recommend it for heavy duty video production, but there are lots of reasons that is true...)

A 2.5" 7200rpm drive only decreases battery life by about 5 minutes (4 minutes in tests). But yeah, they do get a bit warmer

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Although, the newer 5400rpm drives are getting closer and closer in terms of performance to the 7200rpm drives.

As benchmarks with desktop drives (Raptor vs 7200RPM) show, higher density platters on lower RPM drives will peg throughput the same as with the higher RPM drives using lower density platters. However, access time will still be better with higher RPM.

 

[dorkbert]

Myself I would not trust my data to Samsung drives...

 

[waxking1]

Originally posted by: dorkbert
Myself I would not trust my data to Samsung drives...

Isn't Samsung the same as the old IBM drives. I had a DeskStar that died and IBM refused to admit that anything was wrong with the drive. I will never buy another IBM product. It's a long story but it was a nightmare in dealing this IBM.

 

[The0ne]

Originally posted by: waxking1

Originally posted by: dorkbert
Myself I would not trust my data to Samsung drives...

Isn't Samsung the same as the old IBM drives. I had a DeskStar that died and IBM refused to admit that anything was wrong with the drive. I will never buy another IBM product. It's a long story but it was a nightmare in dealing this IBM.

I wouldn't. The IBM 75GXP or any of the GXP models had horrible quality issues. In one of my previous companies we had a contract with IBM to use these in our PCs. I've deployed hundreds of PCs into manufacturing with these hard drives and they were nothing but problems. They just keep dying after a short period of time.

If these are built the same as previous do yourself a big favor and don't buy one. It's really not worth losing your data over it.

 

[alaricljs]

Ok, sounds like some massive mis-perceptions... Samsung had some issues with the Spinpoint F series 3.5" drives.

Samsung drives are not based on any failed IBM technologies. Hitachi owns the IBM stuff now.

I've never heard of any issues with Samsung laptop drives, however I've never heard of someone HAVING one either.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: waxking1
Isn't Samsung the same as the old IBM drives.

No, that would be Hitachi, who bought IBM's HDD division.

 

[Bookmage]

I saw the 500GB 2.5in sata drives added to zzfs list a month ago and was excited about the prospect of 500GB laptop drives.
Now I can fit 2TB into a 5.25in bay or 36 drives in 9 bays...

For whoevers counting, I have about a half dozen 120GB samsung 2.5in drives running fine on laptops and desktops.
The oldest is over is from fall/winter of 2006 and they were purchased from newegg and microcenter locally.
I also have a few 250GB laptop drives running in a server and they've run fine for the past few months.
Maybe i'm lucky or whatever, but they are in use as noncritical system drives and external drives.

Just one above average usage...

 

[dorion]

ITS GONE! DANG IT. I was going to buy it tonight.