From: Rich Gauszka 

the large ones I've seen have been SATA

http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=380&name=Notebook-Lapt
op-Hard-Drives



Gary Britt wrote:
> 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=ETRSS02129TX1
K0000532
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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