Alienware Offers 320GB HDDs in Its Laptops

Alienware has started to offer single and dual Samsung 320GB hard drive configurations in RAID 0 and RAID 1 modes in the 17-inch Area-51 m9750 and Aurora m9700 notebooks, as well as a single Samsung 320GB configuration in the 15.4-inch Area-51 m5550 notebook.

“The Area-51 m9750 and Aurora m9700 are the industry’s first mobile systems to provide up to 640GB of hard drive space, while the Area-51 m9750 is the first to offer the combination of a 320GB hard drive and a 64GB solid state drive. As a result, Area-51 m9750 users can enjoy the best possible options in multiple hard drive formats,” the Alineware’s press release says.

According to product pages on the computer maker’s website, the offered 320GB HDDs have 5400rpm rotational speed and 8MB of cache. A notebook configuration with a single 320GB HDD costs $300 more than the same laptop with a 80GB 7200rpm unit.

For users requiring notebooks with large hard drive capacities, there are also laptops with three HDDs for up to 750GB of storage, such as the Atlantis by Vigor Computer and the Xtreme 917V Accelerator by XtremeNotebooks.