Fujitsu Unveils 300GB Hard Drive for Laptops
Fujitsu has unveiled 2.5″ 300GB capacity hard drives for notebooks which is the largest available capacity of currently. The drives are powered by 4200 rpm drive motor and use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) for storing data on the hard drive. These hard drives will be connected via SATA interface featuring native command queuing (NCQ) technology and expected power consumption is around 1.6 watt. The pricing of the new drives as of now is not yet revealed.
My View:
The move to make larger capacity hard drives is always welcomed as the space needed to store your data is always growing. I would love to add this 300GB drive in my notebook, the only thing that I feel is not appropriate here is the 4200 rpm motor which drives the hard drive. I currently feel that even 5,400 rpm hard drives which ships with most notebooks are also not very fast performers. With introduction of these new drives the laptop hard drives are now matching the desktop hard drives in terms of capacity but they have a long way to go in terms of performance.
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There’s a reason on why i love Siemens. One of them is that their hardware are the best.
I would love to have that laptop.
Heh…makes my 80 GB HD look like thrash
… Sometimes I hate this rapid evolution in technology 
It wasn’t long ago that I couldn’t fill up a 40 gig hard drive. The 300 GB disk space will be nice since laptops seem to becoming quite a bit more mainstream.
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Shiva, RPM of the drives does matter. There is another thing called platters. If your hard drive carries more platters 4200 RPM will be good enough and will outperform 5400 RPM drives in file read writes.
If the drive spins faster your battery will drain faster, I always believed the overall system balance is more important than one or two components. This is where Apple laptops are good at.
People go full speed always!
Nice post shiva , but main problem for us in India is that we have to wait too long for new technology and the day when we get these products in India ,others countries till that introduce more powerful than that .