By: Chris Preimesberger 2009-07-27
It certainly didn't take long for somebody to roar past Toshiba's short-lived record of 500GB for the largest available laptop storage capacity, announced on May 14. Western Digital on July 27 introduced two new laptop drives that knocked Toshiba's Portege R600-ST4203 solid-state laptop out of the No. 1 spot: the WD Scorpio Blue drives, available in both 750GB and 1TB capacities. The Scorpio Blue 1TB is now the 2.5-inch laptop disk drive with the world's largest capacity. How long will it hold the title? Probably not for long. Both spinning disk and solid-state storage capacities have been rising so quickly -- thanks to improved engineering and better use of materials -- that a new standard is reported about every four to six months. Hitachi was the first manufacturer to bring a 1TB drive to market last year -- and beat Western Digital to the punch -- but that one works in desktop machines only. Currently, the largest desktop hard drive now available is 2TB -- from both Western Digital and Hitachi.
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