Mobile pr0n FTW!

Savvio drives had that 'spin it 33% slower, get 33% more storage' thingy going on recently, and it seemed like a very good representative for the whole capacity/spindle speed relationship. I guess the 7200rpm version COULD come with a higher capacity than 200GB, though, in this regard... I mean, it could go up to 240GB in this case. But maybe the next 'natural' step after 200GB is 250GB, so they're just going 200GB for now?

I don't know what "media transfer rate" specifies, but there's no way it's the same thing as sustained transfer rate from the platters. That's 100MB/s for the slower drive, which if it was actual STR would put it well past the Raptor into the territory of 10K and 15K SCSI drives. Since the Toshiba's areal density doesn't exceed those drives by the amount necessary to compensate for the difference in rotational speed, that number reflects something else -- burst from cache, perhaps?

That may be a substantial amount of storage, but considering the very minor difference in power consumption between 5.4k and 7.2k, I would never want a 5.4k drive in my laptop again.

But that's just me.

I'm no hard drive engineer, but couldn't you just take your 5,400rpm spinning drive and make it spin faster?