Western Digital Offers 2.5-inch SATA and ATA-6/EIDE Notebook Hard Drives
If you do need more hard disk capacity on a notebook, Western Digital has the drives for you; in the form of both SATA and ATA-6/EIDE 2.5" Scorpio 250 GB hard drive upgrades.
The WD Scorpio 2.5-inch drives offer high-performance, low power consumption and cool operation, making them ideal for notebooks and other portable devices.
In addition, you'll get one of the quietest 2.5-inch drives on the market with real-time data protection technology to help keep your data safe.
Key Features:
• Massive capacity - Whether they are in an external drive or a notebook computer, WD’s 250 GB 2.5-inch drives offer the most available capacity for space-hungry operating systems like Windows Vista™, plus plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.
• Fast and efficient - With 5400 RPM spin speed and 12 ms access time, even the most demanding customer will appreciate the performance achieved by WD Scorpio drives.
• Quiet - In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD’s WhisperDrive technology combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. These algorithms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption. So now silence (and longer battery life) is golden.
• Reliable and Rugged - WD's ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks. WD's SecurePark (on the SATA version) parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non- operational shock tolerance. ON the ATA-6/EIDE version, WD's DuraStep Ramp locks the heads in a secure position away from the disk to provide another layer of protection when the drive is not in use. Utilizing the most technologically advanced material available, the drive can perform a minimum of 600,000 load/unload cycles without contamination - up to twice the performance of its competitors. WD Scorpio's rigid stainless steel top cover withstands more than 5 pounds of pressure - nearly 1.5 times the industry average - without pinching vital internal components.
• Tested for Compatibility - We perform tests on hundreds of systems and a multitude of platforms in our FIT Lab and Mobile Compatibility Lab to give our customers confidence that our drives will work in their systems.
A 250 GB hard drive has room for:
Up to 71,000 digital photos
Up to 62,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 6,200 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 19 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 100 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 30 hours of HD video
WD Scorpio 2.5-inch ATA-6 /EIDE Hard Drives 250 GB, 100 MB/s, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM
WD Scorpio 2.5-inch SATA Hard Drives 250 GB, 1.5 Gb/s, 8 MB Cache, 5400 RPM
The Bare drives sell for $189.99
For more information, visit:
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=314 (SATA)
and
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=346&language=en (ATA-6)
or
http://shopping.msn.com/specs/shp/?itemId=838508161
Also available from NewEgg,com here.
TechRestore offers a 250GB PowerBook & iBook Overnight Laptop Hard Drive Upgrade Service fpr $299.00
Details here:
http://www.techrestore.com/xcart/product.php?productid=18141&cat=309&page=1
Charles W. Moore
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