Large laptop hard-drives
Rich writes about looking for a replacement laptop hard drive. I’ve been waiting forever for them to come out with 7200RPM drives that are more than 100gb. My main developer laptop has a 70gb 7200 RPM drive and I’ve at least though that I care about the faster drive for the type of tasks I do with this laptop. But basically the 7200RPM technology hasn’t been improving at all for the longest time.
In the meantime they should be shipping hybrid flash-ram / harddrives for laptops sometime in the next month. I’m still looking forward to benchmarks but if these perform as claimed they should be able to get me the performance of the 7200rpm drive (for key scenarios) while using a lower-power 5400rpm mechanism and even lower power usage because the flash can help avoid drive spinups for many scenarios.
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