On Tuesday, peripherals maker Iomega announced that it had released its new eGo USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive as well as the eSATA/USB 2.0 Professional hard drive. According to Macworld News, the >eGo, a 2.5″ drive which arrives in a 160 gigabyte capacity, is powered by its USB port and arrives bundled with the EMC […]
Seagate Technology has announced what it claims to be “the world’s fastest hard drive” – the Savvio 15K with a seek time of a mere 2.9 ms.
Bare Feats has posted an addendum to their article on the MacBook Pro C2D where they discuss: a) 2GB matching vs 3GB unmatching memory, and b) 7200rpm drive vs 5400rpm drive.
The best home for replaced 2.5-inch hard drive mechanism is in an external FireWire enclosure. An external FW hard drive is great for backing up, archiving and moving data and is amazingly convenient. If you’re a user of FireWire 800 (included on the current MBP) you should select an enclosure that supports the faster protocol as it will you save lots of time on large data transfers. The ToughTech Mini from WiebeTech is a portable, bus-powered 2.5-inch hard drive that supports SATA drives.
The speed at which hard drive capacity is growing for laptops is painfully glacial.