Western Digital Scorpio Black
Although SSDs are getting more attention than HDDs these days, the big players on the HDD marketdon't give it up that easy and keep improving the performance and size of the good ol’ platter-based drives. Now it’s Western Digital’s turn to show off their latest in 2’5” HDDs with the new Scorpio Black 7200 RPM product line.
Western Digital dares to challenge Hitachi, who was the first to market 2.5” 7200 RPM HDDs, and Seagate, who was next to enter the race with the Momentus 7200 2.5” lineup. Due to miniaturization factors, the capacity of the 7200 RPM 2.5” performance hard drives has lagged behind the 5400 RPM counterparts. . Thanks to the improved technologies integrated in the new Scorpio Black product line, WD is launching 7200 RPM performance hard drives that offer both the performance and capacity that is the same as their 5400 RPM offers. The highest capacity for a 2.5” 7200 RPM now reaches 320GB.
The Scorpio Black series support the SATA 3 Gb/s interface, as well as 16MB of cache, together with to efficient power usage for the mobile devices. Scorpio Black will include some of WD’s latest improvements in the form of IntelliSeek, SecurPark, ShockGuard, Free-fall Sensor, and WhisperDrive features.
The new line of products will be available shortly. Besideis the 320 GB capacity, the Scorpio Black family features 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 250GB. The 320 GB model is expected to cost $249.
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