Western Digital Ships Scorpio 320GB Hard Disk Drive For Notebook PC's

While Toshiba was the first to announce a 320GB hard disk for notebook PC’s, it’s Western Digital that has actually hit the market with a 320GB disk coming from it’s Scorpio series.

Interestingly, WD is still not the first one to reach this capacity. Back in September, Alienware announced its latest model to offer 2 x 320GB hard disk capacity powered by Samsung HM320JI disk.

Irrespective of the who-landed-first debate, it’s great to hear that this much of storage capacity is now available for notebook users and from a mainstream hard drive manufacturing company.

The model number for this hard disk is WD3200BEVT; it’s 2.5” SATA with 5400 rotations per minute, and has a generous cache of 8MB. WD claims that the access time for this disk is 12ms.

Apart from the towering storage capacity, WD’s far above the ground hard drive also boasts of chic technologies that help it stay exceptionally quiet even when in action, resist damages from shocks and consume less of power. Perhaps exactly what mainstream notebook manufacturers are looking for.

In this era of multimedia computing, where consumers are using their notebook pc’s to store a lot more than regular applications and files, specially high quality images captured via latest digicams, full-length videos, TV recordings via integrated tuners etc, Scorpio 320GB would surely hit the most wanted charts.

Lenovo Y410: Knocking at the US Market

Without making any major announcement, Lenovo has been successful in securing some of the U.S. shelf space for their Y410 model.

Lenovo Y410, which has been available in the Asian market for a while, is starting to show up at U.S retailers like Staples, Office Depot etc.

Buyers have a choice of going for either a Pentium Dual-Core super economy model, priced at $700, or an impressive one that boasts of 1.66GHz Core 2 Duo and better specs when they throw in another couple of hundred dollars.

The basic hardware specs are not bad for either model. It’s a 14.1” thin and light notebook that has 1gb of pre-installed RAM, 160gb of hard disk capacity, dual layer DVD writer, wireless internet connectivity options, integrated webcam, X3100 graphics card to support DirectX 10, and last but not the least a multi-format card reader. To spice it up, the notebook comes with face recognition software for enhanced security and high quality audio with dedicated media buttons to entertain without the need for booting up first.

Let’s see if the Olympic logo helps Lenovo do great sales with the Y410.