Western Digital Begin Shipping WD Scorpio Black Mobile Hard Drive [Offering ‘Desktop Class Performance’ from a Notebook Drive]

Having only just announced that they are now shipping their new VelociRaptor 300GB HDD, a drive billed as being the world’s fastest SATA hard drive, Western Digital have today announced that they have also started shipping their new 2.5″ 7200rpm WD Scorpio Black SATA Mobile Hard Drive which brings ‘desktop class performance’ to a notebook HDD and is available in capacities ranging from 80GB to 320GB.

WD Scorpio Black Mobile Hard Drive Key Features:

• Desktop-class performance for notebook computers - With 7200 RPM spin speed, 16 MB cache, and capacities up to 320 GB, these drives enable you to have the best of both worlds: the capacity and performance of a desktop PC with the convenience and portability of a notebook.
• Massive capacity - WD’s 320 GB 2.5-inch drives offer huge capacity for space-hungry operating systems like Windows Vista, with plenty of room left over for photos, music, and video.
• Low power consumption - With technologies like IntelliSeek, which calculates optimum seek speeds to lower power consumption and SecurePark, which reduces power by parking the heads during low power idle mode, this drive delivers 5400 RPM-equivalent power consumption in a 7200 RPM drive.
• Quiet - In a notebook drive, silence is golden. WD’s exclusive WhisperDrive combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market.
• WD’s ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks during shipping and handling and in daily operation.
• WD’s SecurePark parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear and improved shock tolerance.
• Free-fall sensor - As an added layer of protection, if the drive (or the system it’s in) is dropped while in use, WD’s free-fall sensor detects that the drive is falling and, in less than 200 milliseconds, parks the head to help prevent damage and data loss.

Compatible with both Windows based notebooks as well as MacBooks and MacBook Pros, WD’s Scorpio Black SATA Mobile Hard Drive retails up to around $250 for the largest capacity (320GB) version.

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