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                     Just after Toshiba announced high-density hard drives for laptops last week, Western Digital also joins the game with the new 2.5-inch WD Scorpio Blue 750GB hard disk drive for laptops. With 750GB capacity new WD Scorpio Blue 750GB has two 375GB-per-platter areal density and also features Advanced Format Technology. WD has also added WhisperDrive technology for quieter operation of these HDDs which are listed at $149 (Rs. 7,200 approx.) online and come with a three-year warranty. We'll update this space as soon as we get India-specific price and availability.

New WD Scorpio Blue 750GB HDD joins the league of industry's first 1TB laptop drives. This 750GB HDD comes with 12.5mm height form factor. New Scorpio Blue HDD is almost similar to Toshiba's recently unveiled MK1059GSM HDD in terms of specifications. The HDDs from both companies have 8MB buffer size and make best of 3Gb/s SATA interface. Just like Toshiba's HDD, the Scorpio Blue has read seek time of 12 milliseconds and consumes 1.6Watts during read/write operations.

Main features of the WD Scorpio Blue 750GB HDD for laptops include:

    * Advanced Format technology - Technology being pioneered by WD and adopted by other drive manufacturers to increase media format efficiencies, thus enabling larger drive capacities.
    * WhisperDrive - WD's exclusive WhisperDrive technology combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to yield one of the quietest 2.5-inch hard drives on the market. These algorithms also optimize the way a drive seeks for data, which significantly improves power consumption.
    * ShockGuard - Leading-edge ShockGuard technology protects the drive mechanics and platter surfaces from shocks.
    * SecurePark - SecurePark technology parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down, and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface resulting in improved long term reliability due to less head wear, and improved non-operational shock tolerance.


Besides laptops, this new Scorpio Blue 750GB HDD is ideal digital media players/recorders, and even PlayStation 3. However, please note whether your laptop supports 12.5mm drive since new breed laptops support 9.5mm drives only.