New drives are hitting the market every few weeks; it has become difficult to keep track of them all! We look at three new models intended for high performance and high capacity notebook storage.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/0 [...] index.html

i have to ask.. why weren't these drives tested in notebooks? kinda silly to test them inside of a server. although it is pretty sad to see my hard drive (seagate 7200.1 100gb) look very low in the benchmarks. you would think 7200 rpms would make a huge difference. it only overheats inside the laptop. i'll be switching to a 5400 rpm hard drive eventually. you guys should have done a temperature check also!

I was thinking the same thing - 7200rpm drives should be quicker. I like the 7200rpm 200GB drives, but a 500GB 5400rpm drive would make more sense for some. For those few rich guys out there with a 3-drive quad-core notebook, I can imagine the impact a RAID0 1.5TB hard drive setup would provide.

Another issue I (and others also may) have is I'm still using an older notebook with PATA interface and a 128GB limitation in the BIOS. I've been looking to upgrade to the faster 7200rpm and max out my capacity, but the only 7200rpm PATA drives out there come as either 100GB and 160GB. For the sake of upgrading, I would desperately like to see a 120GB 7200rpm PATA drive in the market.

What was supposed to be the point of this article? This was an apples and oranges comparison.

the 100 gig drive(seagate 7200.1) is most likely not a PMR (perpendicular drives get the bits closer together by standing them up. this increases size and speed) drive. As such its still slower.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/rese [...] ation.html

Why test in a server? hmmm because its tons faster....plug test...plug test....plug test....not open laptop....install drive....close......test....

7200rpms are not as effective on such a small drive...but there is a improvement on seek times....its like asking why some new drives can match and beat a raptor for speed over the first 150gigs.....the raptor will still win with its lower access times....The closer you can get the data, the faster the drive...

Temps in some kind of box would have been nice...but there is always next time.

All the other drives are just for reference anyway....