Anyone seen a 2.5" 7200RPM SATA hard drive at a capacity greater than 200GB?

Gurus,

Anyone seen a 2.5" 7200RPM SATA hard drive at a capacity greater than 200GB?
I bought one of these drives last year at this time and I can't believe a
year later such a beast can't be found. I'm not a very intuitive web
searcher, perhaps that's what limiting me.

--
Spin

"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> I'm doubting that you bought a > 200GB, 7200 RPM SATA, 2.5"
> drive a year ago. 200GB appears to be the highest capacity
> offered today and probably wasn't even available a year ago.

Why would you doubt my statement. Maybe it was in May/June but it was
definitely last year.

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:31:26 -0400, "Spin"
<Spin@invalid.com> wrote:

>Gurus,
>
>Anyone seen a 2.5" 7200RPM SATA hard drive at a capacity greater than 200GB?
>I bought one of these drives last year at this time and I can't believe a
>year later such a beast can't be found. I'm not a very intuitive web
>searcher, perhaps that's what limiting me.

I'm doubting that you bought a > 200GB, 7200 RPM SATA, 2.5"
drive a year ago. 200GB appears to be the highest capacity
offered today and probably wasn't even available a year ago.

Spin wrote:
> Gurus,
>
> Anyone seen a 2.5" 7200RPM SATA hard drive at a capacity greater than
> 200GB? I bought one of these drives last year at this time and I can't
> believe a year later such a beast can't be found. I'm not a very
> intuitive web searcher, perhaps that's what limiting me.
>

Why don't you just look at the drive you bought, or lacking that look at
the receipt and determine what it is that you bought? Far simpler than
playing guessing games.

But if you insist on guessing, Seagate, Samsung and Hitachi (and probably
others by now) manufacture 200gB 2.5" 7200rpm drives. Take your pick.

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

John McGaw wrote:
snip...
> But if you insist on guessing, Seagate, Samsung and Hitachi (and
> probably others by now) manufacture 200gB 2.5" 7200rpm drives. Take your
> pick.
>

I see that I've not taken into account your "greater than" in the subject
line. There are no 7200rpm drives of that size that I know of. Larger
drives (500gB?) are available but each that I've seen has been no faster
than 5400rpm.

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:31:06 -0400, "Spin"
<Spin@invalid.com> wrote:

>"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
>news:adcqt3tp3r0ocaeli4ek2dkftvu6vvph44@4ax.com.. .
>> I'm doubting that you bought a > 200GB, 7200 RPM SATA, 2.5"
>> drive a year ago. 200GB appears to be the highest capacity
>> offered today and probably wasn't even available a year ago.
>
>Why would you doubt my statement. Maybe it was in May/June but it was
>definitely last year.

I doubt it because they don't seem to have existed at all
until some point in the future.

Maybe you're thinking of 5400 RPM.

"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:31:06 -0400, "Spin"
> <Spin@invalid.com> wrote:> I doubt it because they don't seem to have
> existed at all
> until some point in the future.
>
> Maybe you're thinking of 5400 RPM.

It exist now. And has existed for quite some time. This is the one I
bought.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145160

As the con in the review article suggested states, the formatted drive
capacity is actually 186.4 GB; not 200GB as advertised. But it states 200
on the drive labeling and has been existing in my laptop since at least
May/June of last year.

I wish 5400RPM would give me the performance I need but it does not.

"John McGaw" <nobody@nowh.ere> wrote in message
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> John McGaw wrote:
> I see that I've not taken into account your "greater than" in the subject
> line. There are no 7200rpm drives of that size that I know of. Larger
> drives (500gB?) are available but each that I've seen has been no faster
> than 5400rpm.

Larger drives (at 250-300GB?) are indeed available but no faster than
5400rpm as your research indicates. I wanted a second set of eyes on this.
I will have to balance waiting vs. just getting a 200GB 7200RPM one.

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:55:41 -0400, "Spin"
<Spin@invalid.com> wrote:

>"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
>news:7liqt3p4u3ldmrcmhbiis4sku3dqko07qr@4ax.com.. .
>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:31:06 -0400, "Spin"
>> <Spin@invalid.com> wrote:> I doubt it because they don't seem to have
>> existed at all
>> until some point in the future.
>>
>> Maybe you're thinking of 5400 RPM.
>
>It exist now. And has existed for quite some time. This is the one I
>bought.
>
>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822145160
>

No you wrote "capacity GREATER than 200GB".



>As the con in the review article suggested states, the formatted drive
>capacity is actually 186.4 GB; not 200GB as advertised. But it states 200
>on the drive labeling and has been existing in my laptop since at least
>May/June of last year.
>
>I wish 5400RPM would give me the performance I need but it does not.

All drives have lower true (binary) GB capacity than their
label suggests. If you need 7200 RPM, 200GB is it and as
you saw Newegg is one place to pick between a few.
Pricewatch.com also has some.

Spin wrote:

> I wish 5400RPM would give me the performance I need but it does not.

Then neither will 7200 RPM.