Xbitlabs reviews 4 2.5" notebook hard drives including:
Samsung SpinPoint M60 120GB (HM120JC)
Samsung SpinPoint M60 100GB (HM100JC)
Western Digital Scorpio 120GB (WD1200VE)
Western Digital Scorpio 100GB (WD1000VE)
Today we would like to continue testing high-capacity 2.5-inch hard disk drives and within our today?s roundup we will introduce to you four new models from Samsung and Western Digital with 100GB+ storage capacities. We will not only compare them against one another but will also add up the results from our previous test session when we looked at the latest solutions from Seagate, Toshiba and Fujitsu.
This time we decided to share with you the results of our tests performed on the highest-capacity hard disk drives of the 2.5-inch form-factor.
The storage capacity of these hard disk drives has been growing up lately. As we have already mentioned in our previous reviews, one of Seagate?s solutions has already hit 160GB storage capacity (for details see our article called Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB Hard Disk Drive with Perpendicular Recording Technology). None of the other vendors have reached or overcome this bar yet. Of course, all the HDD makers do their best to achieve this, but while they are still trying we suggest taking a closer look at the currently available 2.5-inch HDD solutions from different manufacturers that boast the highest storage capacity in their family...
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