5400 RPM & Speed: Hitachi's Travelstar 5K250 and WD's Scorpio WD3200BEVT
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Since its introduction last summer, Hitachi's mighty Travelstar 7K200 has stood as the only mobile drive capable of delivering true desktop performance in a notebook configuration. Its 200 gigabyte capacity was nothing to sneeze at either. Since then, however, capacities have crept forward, especially in the 5400 RPM sector. The Travelstar 5K250 was introduced alongside the firm's 7200 RPM offering as a slower yet more capacious and more affordable alternative. A few months later, Western Digital debuted the largest mobile drive to date, the 320-gigabyte Scorpio WD3200BEVT. In the pages that follow, we will take a look at how these two 5400 RPM units stack up against other 5.4K and 7.2K units. |
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The 250-gigabyte Hitachi Travelstar 5K250 and 320-gigabyte Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEVT will be compared against the following drives:
| Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 (160 GB) | Predecessor to the Travelstar 5K250 |
| Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 (200 GB) | Current-generation 7200 RPM notebook drive |
| Seagate Momentus 5400.3 (160 GB) | Competing 5400 RPM notebook drive |
| Seagate Momentus 7200.2 (160 GB) | Current-generation 7200 RPM notebook drive |
| Western Digital Scorpio WD2500BEVS (250 GB) | Predecessor to the Scorpio WD3200BEVT |

