From: Gary Britt 

Are any of these large laptop drives standard IDE UMA 100 or UMA 133 ??

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> John Beamish wrote:
>> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=314&language=en
>>
>> 5400 rpm, though.
>>
>> On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:46:11 -0400, Rich Gauszka
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2134561,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K
0000532
>>>
>>>
>>> Western Digital said Monday that it has begun shipping a 250-Gbyte
>>> version
>>> of its Scorpio 2.5-inch disk drive, pushing notebook PC storage
>>> capacities
>
>
> Yep - but Seagate's 5400 rpm Momentus drive beat out Hitachi's  7K100
> 7200 rpm drive  in quite a few benchmarks
>
> http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/mobile-hdds/index.x?pg=1
>
> conclusion
>
> http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/mobile-hdds/index.x?pg=15
>
> Our test results show very clear performance differences between the
> 2.5" mobile Serial ATA hard drives we assembled. At times, those
> performance differences were surprising, as we certainly didn't expect
> to see Seagate's Momentus 5400.2 beating Hitachi's Travelstar 7K100 in
> so many tests. We also didn't expect the 7K100 to falter so much in
> IOMeter, or for either Travelstar to perform so strongly in our iPEAK
> multitasking tests. Those iPEAK results in particular make it clear that
> the Travelstar drives are capable of spectacular performance. However,
> whatever caching and command queuing optimizations cause them to do so
> well in our multitasking tests appear to be hindering performance in
> other applications.
>
>
>
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