electronista.com - 9/12/2008
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Western Digital on Friday began shipping the 500GB Scorpio Blue, the company's largest-capacity notebook drive. Claiming a record in the process, Western Digital says the disk is the only one to make no sacrifices in size or speed to reach its stora...
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Western Digital ships 500GB notebook drives
CrunchGear —
... to keeping things in “the cloud” can rest easy, as companies like Western Digital show absolutely no signs of stopping the weed-like growth of hard drive storage capacity. Today, Western Digital begins shipping its “Scorpio Blue” 500-gigabyte notebook hard drive. It’s got 8MB of cache, a 5400 RPM spin speed, 12 ms access time, and up to 3-gigabytes per second transfer speed over SATA (there’s an EIDE version available as well). The drive will retail for around $220.
[via Electronista]
500GB Hdd By Western Digital For Notebooks
High Tech Lounge —
... speed, 12ms access time, and u to 3 gigabytes per second transfer speed over a SATA connection. If you’re the type that prefers an EIDE connection, there’s a version of the Western Digital Scorpio Blue that will do that too. Given our focus on music, videos, and other heavy multimedia, it may be time to upgrade that paltry 80GB hard drive in your notebook to something a little more substantial. Look for this drive to sell for $220. 500GB Hdd By Western Digital For Notebooks Source: electronista.com
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