Toshiba MK5055GSX
Although hard drive reviews are often dominated by other brands, Toshiba is still around, and continues to develop nice notebook storage products. The 55GSX-series is the latest product family, also reaching up to 500 GB on two storage platters and running at 5,400 RPM. The MK5055GSX offers 8 MB of cache memory and a SATA 2.6 300 Mbit/s interface with NCQ support.
This drive reached an average access time of 18.4 ms and average I/O performance results. Throughput maxed out at 77.9 MB/s, just missing the 80 MB/s mark. Toshiba’s drive achieved average scores in the PCMark Vantage HDD benchmark, but it consumed little power during our testing: 0.7 W idle power is the lowest result, which it shares with the Fujitsu drive. A figure of 2.2 W power for streaming reads is the best result as well; others require 2.3 to 2.6 W for delivering data at peak throughput. Finally, the drive was also very efficient when it comes to power consumption during a defined stream of data: HD video playback could be done at 0.9 W power consumption. As a result of the low power numbers, this drive reached excellent performance per watt results. If you want maximum power efficiency, then this is your product.
Toshiba offers 500, 400, 320, 250, 160, and 120 GB capacity points with an optional free-fall sensor. Find more information on the Toshiba Web site.
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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.