Samsung HM500LI
Samsung’s HM500LI is a first-generation drive. Although it is based on a three-platter design, Samsung could fit it into the standard height of 9.5 mm, which is why we decided to include the drive into this roundup. Unfortunately, the HM500JI—the new two-platter drive—did not arrive in time for this roundup. It doesn’t come as a surprise that Samsung went into this roundup with a little handicap, as the HM500LI cannot keep up with the other drives, which all deliver better performance thanks to their higher data density, despite 8 MB of cache and a 5,400 RPM rotation speed. The maximum throughput of 70 MB/s is still sufficient, but not that great in the light of up to 85 MB/s in the case of other drives.
Users on the lookout for a notebook drive should pick one of the two-platter 500 GB drives. They’d also most likely do well with the new HM500JI, but the HM500LI could still be an option for storage applications. If you need a drive for a compact media center solution or an external hard drive enclosure, the performance of the three-platter Samsung drive is fast enough—if you can get a good deal you probably won’t notice the little performance difference.
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Give me a 2.5" Raptor and to hell with the battery!
2.5" Raptor drives are 15mm in depth and therefore are not suitable for notebooks which require 9.5mm or 12.5mm depth drives.
plus the raptors require active cooling and would soon suffer heat related faliure in the cramped confines of a laptop
plus the connections wont be the same as a normal 2,5" hdd.
You guys are telling me we can cram Core i7, 3 x mechanical hard disks, beefy GPU, yet we can't accomodate a Veloci Raptor?
I'm betting it could be done. Simple potential-divider network to get the +12v etc. But even underneath my M570RU, it seems like there is loads of space for something bigger, I can only imagine bigger notebooks might have even more, and if not, with a small case modification, who knows what might be possible?
I even considered taking on this project myself, but then, I just purchased an Intel X25-M 160GB, and as you know - that dropped straight in...
And the connections would be the same, 'cept for the missing 12v.