Western Digital is the first hard disk drive maker to begin shipping a 320GB HDD in the 2.5” form-factor. WD Scorpio 320GB has the following specs: 5400rpm, 8MB of cache and a Serial ATA-300 interconnection. The manufacturer touts a 4.20ms average latency, 12ms read seek time, 2.0ms track-to-track seek time, 850Mb/s buffer to disk transfer rate, power consumption of 2.5W during reads/writes, 2W in idle mode, 0.25W in standby mode and 0.1W in sleep mode. Like all WD mobile hard drives, the Scorpio 320GB supports such technologies as IntelliSeek, ShockGuard and WhisperDrive.
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In today’s market, new notebook systems are increasingly targeting heavy duty applications in the office and home. As system manufacturers improve performance and add data hungry features, high-capacity hard drives become a key ingredient that allows users to fully benefit from the latest computing technologies,” said Jim Morris, WD’s vice president and general manager of notebook storage.
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