Western Digital has finally joined other notebook drive manufactures with a unit featuring a 7200 RPM spindle speed. Available in capacities of up to 320 GB, this family includes a 16 MB buffer and specs seeks at 12 milliseconds… WD® INTRODUCES NEW FAMILY OF 7200 RPM 2.5-INCH HARD DRIVES FOR FAST NOTEBOOK SYSTEMS AND PORTABLE

StorageReview.com provides some of the best SSD reviews out there, aided both by a team of experts dedicated to giving the most in-depth analyses and by an in-house lab that features the latest storage, servers, interconnect, switching and so on. While it’s possible to test an SSD anywhere, higher-end devices and arrays require far more

Figures for Samsung’s impressive Spinpoint HD103UJ have been added to the StorageReview Performance Database. Unlike other terabyte offerings, this unit uses just three platters to achieve its 1000 GB capacity. Delivering an auspicious showing, the F1 is the first 7200 RPM drive to break 1000 IOps in the StorageReview Office DriveMark. Its other single-user results

Today WD introduces its newest addition to its 10,000 RPM SATA line, the VelociRaptor. The bad news is that we don’t yet have the official press release reprinted here for your perusal… The good news it that we’ve put a pre-release engineering sample through SR’s comprehensive tests and have a full set of results on

Performance numbers for WD’s latest mobile drive, the 320 GB Scorpio WD3200BEVT, have been placed in the Performance Database. Overall, the drive delivers an across the board performance gain over its 250-gig predecessor while weighing in just a hair noisier when it comes to idle operation. Nonetheless, WD’s latest closes the gap between the firm’s

Results for Seagate’s latest 10K RPM Drive, the Cheetah NS, have been placed in the Performance Database. Results with Performance Mode (cache segmented for single-user applications) Enabled Results with Performance mode Disabled (optimized for multi-user use) A comparison of the 400 GB Cheetah NS versus its predecessor, the 300 GB Cheetah 10K.7 Don’t forget that,

Hitachi Continues to Drive Notebook PC Capacities Higher with New 320GB Travelstar Hard Drives Achieves over 140 million accumulative media shipment since establishment in 1998 SAN JOSE, Calif. – Feb. 26, 2008 – Bolstering Hitachi’s position as the segment and technology leader in 2.5-inch hard drives, the company today announced volume shipment of new 5,400

Results for Hitachi’s 5400 RPM 2.5″ notebook-oriented unit have been placed in the Performance Database.

Today WD introduces the GreenPower version of its enterprise-oriented RE2 line, marrying the environmental friendliness of the GP series with server-oriented features such as a higher MTBF, time-limited error recovery, and vibration compensation. WD® ENTERPRISE GREENPOWER™ HARD DRIVES REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION, SIGNIFICANTLY LOWERING COSTS FOR DATA CENTERS WD RE2-GP Drives Deliver the Lowest Power Consumption