Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Western Digital Now Shipping 250 GB 2.5 Inch Hard Drives
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 05:38 PM
"Western Digital Corp. today announced it is now shipping its 250 GB WD Scorpio(TM) 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives. The drives employ perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to achieve the highest capacity available in a small form factor drive and have WD proprietary features that make the drive quiet, use less power and run at cool operating temperatures. "The 2.5-inch market continues to be a major focus for WD, and this 250 GB WD Scorpio drive represents our second-generation PMR platform," said Jim Morris, WD's vice president and general manager of notebook storage. "The WD Scorpio 250 GB hard drive is a direct result of the significant investments WD has made in proprietary head technologies as well as significant system level feature innovation. With the introduction of our latest-generation WD Scorpio drives, WD continues to offer mobile computing and portable storage customers the same outstanding quality, reliability and performance that have earned the company a leadership position in the desktop PC market."
The capacity boost we've seen as perpendicular technology matures has been impressive - I'm drooling at the thought of putting two of these in my 17" laptop and having 500 GB of storage...though I'm not exactly sure what I'd do with it. :lol: Then again, with an HD camera you'd chew up the space quick!
The capacity boost we've seen as perpendicular technology matures has been impressive - I'm drooling at the thought of putting two of these in my 17" laptop and having 500 GB of storage...though I'm not exactly sure what I'd do with it. :lol: Then again, with an HD camera you'd chew up the space quick!
