StorageReview reviews Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 and Western Digital Scorpio WD3200BEVT 2.5" inch laptop hard drives
Since its introduction last summer, Hitachi's mighty Deskstar 7K200 has stood as the only mobile drive capable of delivering true desktop performance in a notebook configuration. Its 200 gigabyte capacity was nothing to sneeze at either. Since then, however, capacities have crept forward, especially in the 5400 RPM sector. The Deskstar 5K250 was introduced alongside the firm's 7200 RPM offering as a slower yet more capacious and more affordable alternative. A few months later, Western Digital debuted the largest mobile drive to date, the 320-gigabyte Scorpio WD3200BEVT. In the pages that follow, we will take a look at how these two 5400 RPM units stack up against other 5.4K and 7.2K units...
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