Now the gap between desktop and laptop hard drive ends. Western Digital has announced on Monday (27/07) and then, the first time about the existence of two laptop hard drives with a capacity extreme, yaitui Scorpio Blue 1TB (1000GB) and Scorpio Blue 750GB. Meanwhile, previously existing 500GB laptop hard drive and desktop hard drives on the market that reaches 2TB.
Scorpio Blue Hard Drive 1TB is very interesting, taking into account the size of 2.5-inch laptop hard drive, which is smaller than 3.5 inch desktop hard drives. Device latest laptop hard drive from Western Digital is the first hard drive that uses 333GB per platter technology. Scorpio Blue hard drives are also supported by the standard SATA2 (3Gbps), 12.5mm thick, thicker than 2.5 inch hard disk with a thickness of 9.5mm. This means that the disk is not suitable for all 2.5-inch slot in the laptop.
Both Scorpio Blue 1TB (1000GB) and Scorpio Blue 750GB, comes with 8MB buffer memory, with a speed of 5.200 rpm, which is slower than the speed of 5.400 rpm for standard laptop hard drive. Scorpio Blue 750GB (model WD7500KEVT) will be priced around $ 190, while for Scorpio Blue 1TB (model WD10TEVT) which now can only be configured into a USB drive My Passport Essential, will be used as an internal hard drive in the next few weeks, for $ 250 .