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“Both drives, Hitachi's Travelstar 7K100 series and Fujitsu's MHV2100BH, are 2.5-inch types and are available with a maximum capacity of 100GB. Hitachi's new drives represent the company's second generation of notebook drives with a disk rotational speed of 7200 rpm. That's significantly faster than the 5400 rpm of most notebook drives and the same as most desktop drives. The faster speed means a boost to… Read More

The company said the drive can store up to 69Gb per square inch, has Spin Valve GMR heads, GDT media and MEEPRML read channel technologies. And it claimed a 22 per cent improvement in average latency compared to current 4,200RPM products. Buffer size has been expanded to 8MB, while FDB spindle motor technology has been used to improve non-operating shock tolerance and decrease acoustic noise. “Producing a 5,400RPM… Read More

The two 160-gigabyte models, the SpinPoint V80 (7,200rpm) and P80 (5,400rpm), provide the ability to handle huge data files quietly in today's multimedia computing environment. In addition to the spacious storage, the new drives feature Samsung Electronics' proprietary acoustic noise control technologies NoiseGuardâ„¢ and SilentSeekâ„¢ along with a fluid dynamic bearingmechanism for minimal operation noise. SilentSeekâ„¢ is designed… Read More