The best home for replaced 2.5-inch hard drive mechanism is in an external FireWire enclosure. An external FW hard drive is great for backing up, archiving and moving data and is amazingly convenient. If you’re a user of FireWire 800 (included on the current MBP) you should select an enclosure that supports the faster protocol as it will you save lots of time on large data transfers. The ToughTech Mini from WiebeTech is a portable, bus-powered 2.5-inch hard drive that supports SATA drives.
Category: hard drive
Notebook HDD Progress Disappointing
The speed at which hard drive capacity is growing for laptops is painfully glacial.
I was a little scared at first, the last time I installed a hard drive into an external enclosure was during President Clinton’s first term in office. This time around was much easier, thanks to the Transport Pro FireWire and USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive Kit. It runs for US$49 and is a snap to […]
Fujitsu Computer Products of America has announced the MHV2160BT, a 4200RPM, 160GB, Serial ATA (SATA), 2.5-inch hard drive for notebook computers. Curiously the Fujitsu MHV2160BT only spins at a relatively pokey 4200RPM, whereas lower capacity drives like the recently announced 120GB Seagate Momentus 5400.2 spin at 5400RPM. The Fujitsu MHV2160BT mechanism is expected to ship […]
Woo Hoo! There’s nothing like capacity! PowerBookResQ is the first out of the gate to offer 120GB 2.5-inch 5400RPM hard drives capable of being installed in PowerBooks and iBooks. The new 120GB Seagate mechanisms are a full 20 percent larger than the previously largest 100GB drive. Read More…