15K rpm HDD for laptops

Shawn Erickson shawnce at gmail.com
Tue Jan 16 13:08:53 PST 2007


On 1/16/07, Shaun Wexler <dev at macfoh.com> wrote:
> 2.5" Seagate Savvio 15K, 2.9 ms seek, 36GB and 73 GB:
>
>    <http://www.dailytech.com/Seagate+Announces+Worlds+Fastest+Hard
> +Drive/article5677.htm>

Actually these are more for blade servers or small form factor
servers, etc. then laptops... they burn more power and are louder then
your normal laptop hard drive. Most laptop drives in this form factor
burn under 2 watts when active and well under 1 watt when idle.

-Shawn


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