X-bitlabs reviews 5 2.5" inch laptop hard drives including:
Fujitsu MHX2250BT
Fujitsu MHY2250BH
Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00
Samsung HM250JI
Western Digital WD2500BEVS
Today we are going to talk about five 2.5-inch hard disk drives based on platters that use second-generation perpendicular recording technology. These will be solutions from Fujitsu, Hitachi, Samsung and Western Digital.
2.5-inch hard disk drives with a recording density of 80GB per platter are quite a widespread variety today. 160GB models (based on two platters) are popular as well, but there are still few models with a capacity of 250 gigabytes. You can only see them in notebooks excepting the Western Digital WD2500BEVS, which is installed into the external drive called Passport (for details see our article called Western Digital Passport Mobile Hard Disk Drive with 250GB Storage Capacity), and the Samsung HM250JI, which is already selling in retail stores. We even had some problems finding 250GB drives for this review. But being highly skilled at eviscerating notebooks and external HDDs, we finally had five HDDs in our hands (one of them is based on three platters, however, as you'll learn shortly)...
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