320GB drive upgrade for MacBook & MacBook Pro
Laptop storage has been increasing rapidly over the past few years, with prices decreasing too. MCE technologies has just announced a 320GB SATA hard drive that will work in both the MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook computers from Apple. The 320GB MobileStor Performance hard drive utilizes the same technology used in current MacBook/Pro hard drives, 2.5 inch SATA (the MacBook Air uses a different technology called PATA in a 1.8 inch drive).
The drive has an external portable enclosure with FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces. Bundled with it is the Mac backup software, SuperDuper! Although, you will most likely use Time Machine for your backups, it’s always good to have a system that backs up in a universal format - so you can read it on a Windows PC. It also has some unique features like Native Command Queing (NCQ), which “reorders commands in the most efficient way based on the location of data on its platters in order to retrieve that data with the least latency”, so that the drive can retrieve data super-fast. The 320GB MobileStor Performance hard drive upgrade solution costs $350 and is available today.
Via [MacNN]
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This is nothing new
Western Digital have 2.5” SATA drives this big
on January 30, 2008 at 03:09 PM - LINKKevin, I think the unique part of these drives is the fact that they are also able to be external hard drives with Firewire/USB interfaces. Thanks for your comment.
on January 30, 2008 at 03:22 PM - LINK