On Monday, hard drive manufacturer Western Digital announced that the company has started shipping its 250 gigabyte Scorpio SATA drive for laptop systems.
According to Macworld News, the 2.5″ hard features a 12 millisecond seek time and spins at 5,400 RPM with a 1.5 gigabyte per second transfer rate and eight megabytes of cache built into the device. Additional bells and whistles include a ShockGuard firmware technology which works to protect the drive against bumps, an IntelliSeek feature which calculates the optimum seek speed of the read/write head actuator and a WhisperDrive feature designed to reduce noise and conserve power.
The drive also features perpendicular magnetic recording to stack data stored on the drive in a denser formation.
Western Digital is currently selling the Scorpio series in 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 160, and 250 gigabyte capacities, the 250 gigabyte model retailing for US$199.99 while the other unit prices vary depending on capacity.

On Monday, hard drive manufacturer Western Digital announced that the company has started shipping its 250 gigabyte Scorpio SATA drive for laptop systems.
According to Macworld News, the 2.5″ hard features a 12 millisecond seek time and spins at 5,400 RPM with a 1.5 gigabyte per second transfer rate and eight megabytes of cache built into the device. Additional bells and whistles include a ShockGuard firmware technology which works to protect the drive against bumps, an IntelliSeek feature which calculates the optimum seek speed of the read/write head actuator and a WhisperDrive feature designed to reduce noise and conserve power.
The drive also features perpendicular magnetic recording to stack data stored on the drive in a denser formation.
Western Digital is currently selling the Scorpio series in 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 160, and 250 gigabyte capacities, the 250 gigabyte model retailing for US$199.99 while the other unit prices vary depending on capacity.