Western Digital launched something that would interest all you laptop owners. WD has crossed the barrier for laptop hard drives by releasing a mammoth of a hard drive. The 1 Tera-byte hard drive came with a companion, a 750 Gigabyte WD Scorpio Blue hard drive. Both are 2.5 inche internal SATA II Hard drives. The HDDs are in the regular 12.5 mm form factor, which makes them compatible with all types of laptops and even small-factor desktop computers. The 1 TB hard drive has quite shaken the 500 GB standard for the desktop as well as the laptop computers found these days.

These HDDs are not slow at performance either, giving out a 3GB per second data transfer rate. These drives are rated reasonably at a $189.99 for the 750 GB Scorpio hard drive and $249.99 for the 1 TB one. Also, both of those drives can also be purchased as external portable hard drives as WD’s Passport Essential SE series at $299.99 for 1 TB and $199.99 for 750 GB. The external hard drives features like WhisperDrive, Shockguard & Securepark which do as per the name says, Silent, Shock-proof and Secure.

Since the form factor of these internal hard drives is 12.5 mm, it’s quite unlikely to see them in netbooks or ultra portable laptops. Let’s see if they make a round-about this..

For TechMirage,
Pranav Shirodkar