Re: [Thinkpad] 7200RPM Travelstar

chris..
hate to say this but its old news..
been selling the new T40p with that same drive..
it is $300+ more than the fast (5400RPM) 40gig counterpart..

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Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
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bill@thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Schumann" <cschumann@twp-llc.com>
To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 10:49 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] 7200RPM Travelstar

> Hitachi now makes a Travelstar laptop drive with 7200RPM.
> I was stunned. Here are some prices for the 60GB(!) drive:
>
http://techbargains.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php?mast
erid=986506&foun
> d=2&search=7k60
>
> The E7K60 has an 8MB cache, uses about 2.5W while in use
> and has a continuous data transfer rate of about 60MB/s.
> It's "always on" and rated for 50% lifetime duty cycle.
> http://www.hgst.com/hdd/travel/tre7k60.htm
> </drool>
>
> The 7K60 is basically the same but apparently not
warranted
> for such heavy usage.
> http://www.hgst.com/hdd/travel/tr7k60.htm
>
> Looks like they are still behind Toshiba in the area of
> cache size though. Some Toshiba drives have 16MB cache.
>
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