7,200 Rpm: Hitachi Travelstar 7K60/E7K60
While Hitachi's Travelstar 7K60 looks the same as its E7K60, the E7K60 is designed for continuous, 24/7 operation. The capability is well suited for notebooks, as well as for a large gamut of server systems for which performance is a secondary consideration. Applications include blade servers, the whole range of space- and energy-saving systems, as well as home multimedia servers for Internet access, MP3 files, video databases, etc.
As we expected, the hard drive's performance was excellent. A size of 40 GB is more than respectable for a 2.5" drive, and it trounced both competitors in the test. As far as we're aware, it's the fastest notebook hard drive to debut commercially. The excellent values are repeated in the other benchmarks.
