Jason Dunn
05-23-2007, 01:38 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=314' target='_blank'>http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=314</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Western Digital Corp. today announced it is now shipping its 250 GB WD Scorpio(TM) 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives. The drives employ perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to achieve the highest capacity available in a small form factor drive and have WD proprietary features that make the drive quiet, use less power and run at cool operating temperatures. "The 2.5-inch market continues to be a major focus for WD, and this 250 GB WD Scorpio drive represents our second-generation PMR platform," said Jim Morris, WD's vice president and general manager of notebook storage. "The WD Scorpio 250 GB hard drive is a direct result of the significant investments WD has made in proprietary head technologies as well as significant system level feature innovation. With the introduction of our latest-generation WD Scorpio drives, WD continues to offer mobile computing and portable storage customers the same outstanding quality, reliability and performance that have earned the company a leadership position in the desktop PC market."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/western-digital-250GB-scorpio-may22.jpg" /><br /><br />The capacity boost we've seen as perpendicular technology matures has been impressive - I'm drooling at the thought of putting two of these in my 17" laptop and having 500 GB of storage...though I'm not exactly sure what I'd do with it. :lol: Then again, with an HD camera you'd chew up the space quick!