Western Digital Scorpio Black notebook HDDs now available

Posted in Western Digital by Shane McGlaun on June 2nd, 2008

Western Digital Scorpio BlackWhen it comes to your notebook computer everything is a compromise. The performance of everything from the CPU inside to the hard drives and video cards are a compromise of performance for battery life and vice versa. The trick is to get a good balance of performance while still getting good battery life.

Western Digital announced today that its line of Scorpio Black 2.5-inch SATA notebook HDDs are now available. This line of drives gives high performance with a 7200 RPM rotational speed, but adds some technology to help reduce the battery power needed and increase the runtime of the notebook.

The drives all use the SATA 3 GB/s interface and a 16MB cache. Other features of the line include IntelliSeek that calculates the ideal seek speed to lower power use and help increase battery life. A SecurePark feature parks the heads off the disk platters for increased durability and a Free-fall sensor can park the head off the disk platters in 200ms when a fall is detected. The drives are available in up to 320GB capacities with pricing of up to $250.

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