Since the first hard drive hit the market, manufacturers have competed with each other to see who could up the capacity of store. So SanDisk launched a 2.5 inch from 64GB, that are more capable than previously 32GB. According to source it can sustained read rate of around 67Mbps, and a random rate of 7000 IOPS. No word just yet on pricing.

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Western Digital Corp has released its Western Digital’s Scorpio 250GB WD2500BEVS Scorpio 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard drive for laptop. The WD2500BEVS, use the same SATA connectors as regular 3.5” SATA drives, it supports spins at 5,400PRM and features perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology for higher storage capacity in a small form factor. After formatted to NTFS you will get 232.88 of store capacity.

This is not a problem, as after three averaged tests under HD Tach we found that the drive’s maximum burst speed was only 124.93 MB/s; a speed which will rarely if ever be achieved in the real world. More useful than this are the average read speeds, which over the course of three tests averaged 44.13MB/s.

It also features a 12ms access time and 8MB of buffer cache memory and. Scorpio also includes ShockGuard for hard drive’s physical protection and WhisperDrive for quiet work. No word around availability. It retails for $299.

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Well, I am really happy to report that after the launch of SanDisk’s 1.8-inch edition, now the engadget site dedicated to technology shows some pictures of the new SSD SATA 5000 2.5-inch.

The vigorous test ensure that new SanDisk SSD SATA 5000 meets some of the highest levels of durability and robustness.

The newcomer is slightly pared-down and more improved than its older brother. Some of the features offered with the new SSD SATA 5000 2.5″ include: NAND flash memory enhanced, capacity to achieves a sustained read rate of 67-megabyte (MB)*/sec. SanDisk SSD SATA 5000 2.5″ allows to boot Microsoft Windows® Vista™ Enterprise on a laptop in only 30 seconds4.

SanDisk SSD also achieves an average file access rate of 0.11 milliseconds.The price quoted is the equivalent of $350, but as yet there’s no news of this coming.

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Toshiba this time bringing a somewhat new portable hard drive from 1.8-inch think for all costumers. Toshiba HDD offers a storage capacity of 100 gigabytes, the largest capacity yet achieved in this class of HDD.

The new drive, equipped an perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology and includes error correction code. It also feature a 4,200RPM spindle speed, 15ms seek, 100MBps.

Toshiba go with the mass production from January 2007.