Revolutionary series set to be a big hit!

Data storage pioneers, Western Digital, publicized on Monday their two new spanking products, the Scorpio Blue 750 GB and the Scorpio Blue 1TB smashing the previous record for the largest notebook hard drive size which was 500 GB. The Scorpio Blue joins the My Passport Essential SE Portable USB hard drive family.

At present, the largest desktop drive is one whole terrabyte bigger than the Scorpio Blue but is still 1mm thicker, as the 1TB notebook edition is only 2.5mm thick! For the 1TB edition, Western Digital have decided to use 333 GB per platter. The SATA2 hard drive offers a 3Gbs ( gigabyte per second) transfer rate but one disadvantage to the newly released product is that it is 12.5 mm thick whereas other standard 2.5 inch drives 9.5 mm thick, thus meaning this will not be compatitble with all laptops.

The three distinct features that makes the Scorpio Blue outshine other competitors are:

• WD own tech,WhisperDrive, effectively making the noise output almost silent.
• If you drop your Scorpio, don’t worry as it is almost guarenteed not to be broken, thanks to durable Shockguard.
• For long term trust, Securepark, which boosts the protection when the HD is turned off.

Western Digital’s Jim Morris, senior vice president and GM of client systems, said this fresh revolutionary series will give lower power output and more protection:

“The convergence of the growing mobile computing and digital media trends produces demand for desktop-like capacities in portable devices. Our new WD Scorpio Blue drives enable people to take even more of their digital collections with them wherever they go and, realising the value of their data, back up their notebooks on their My Passport drives.”

Pricing

WD have started shipping the new series of notebook drives to consumers and the prices are really quite unbeatable! For the 1TB editon, it merely costs $250 ( £151) and the 750GB edition is $190 ( £115.) Why not pay an extra $60 for a whole more 250 GB since their MyPassport costs the same amount? Perhaps because not many people will get through even 500 GB in their computing lifetime!

Do you think the 1TB notebook drive will be a big hit in this current economic climate? Will people have enough money to spend on peripherals like these? Feel free to comment below.