First 7200 RPM PowerBook Drive

Trans Intl. today released an industry first, a 7200 RPM Mobile Hard Disk Drive with 60GB capacity and 2.5-inch form factor. The new 7200 RPM drive offers mobile users desktop equivalent performance with battery consumption at about the same level as a 5,400 RPM HDD.

The drive offers a substantial improvement in mobile I/O by keeping in line with the performance characteristics of the industry's leading-edge mobile drive specifications:

• Quiet acoustics by incorporating fluid dynamic bearing technology
• Low power consumption
• Excellent shock performance [Increase Shock performance by 25 percent]

The new 2.5-inch drive spins 33 percent faster than its 5400 RPM counterpart, which translates into 15 percent faster data access in notebook computers coupled with 20 percent lower rotational latency and improved average seek time by 20 percent which gives excellent opportunity to mobile users looking to boost their existing system performance by upgrading their internal hard disk drive.

This 7200 RPM mobile drive has unique performance features superior to other drives currently available. Performance parameters, like:

• Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM [Highest in a mobile drive]
• Cache buffer: 8 MB [Megabyte]
• Average Seek Time: 10 ms [Milliseconds]
• The lowest drive latency of 4.2 in 2.5 inch drives
• Delivering media transfer rates up to 568 Mbits/sec
• The highest shock rating of: 1000G/1ms
• Maximum Interface transfer rate (MB/sec) 100MB/sec Ultra DMA mode-5
• Interface : ATA-6

The New Mobile 60 GB 7200 RPM drive is also available as an external FireWire/USB portable Disk Drive featuring the fastest sustained data transfer rate of [27-40 MB/s] enabled by an OXFORD 911 Fire Wire bridge chip.

For pricing and availability, check out this Trans Intl. web page. [Information supplied by Trans Intl.]