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Alienware Offers up to 640GB of Storage on Its Hard Drives

Single and dual Samsung 320GB hard drives for lots of storage space

By Alexandru Pancescu, Hardware Editor

21st of September 2007, 09:41 GMT

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Alienware laptops to integrate Samsung 320GB HDDs

Mobile computing platforms are usually known for more restrictive storage space offerings than their desktop based counterparts that are offering lavishly big and spacious hard disk drives coupled with a host of other external storage features and possibilities. While the general situation is improving little by little for mobile users, Alienware is one of the companies that are not really happy with the current state of affairs and it just announced that it will soon launch products based on Samsung hard disk drives.

Alienware is going to offer as an upgrade option the Samsung made hard disk drives for products from the following lines Area-51 m9750, Aurora m9700 and Area-51 m5550. While the first two notebooks will be available with both single and dual drive configurations, the third line will only come with a single 320GB drive. For the Area-51 m9750 and Aurora m9700 notebooks in dual hard disk drives setups, Alienware also decided to implement a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration and the Area-51 m5550 is also available with a storage combo made of a single

Samsung 320GB hard drive and a 64GB solid state drive.

''Hard drive technologies for notebooks have advanced rapidly in 2007, and Alienware has led the charge every step of the way,'' said Bryan de Zayas, Associate Director of Product Marketing at Alienware. ''By being the first manufacturer to introduce notebooks featuring Samsung 320GB hard drives, 64GB solid state drives and a combination of both, Alienware's ongoing commitment to consumer satisfaction and cutting-edge excellence is unmistakable.''

The new Alienware notebooks are available with hardware platforms based on both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices products. For example the Area-51 m9750 is based on an Intel mobile computing platform that is centered around the Intel Core 2 Duo family of processing units while the graphics department is handled by two Nvidia 7950 GTX graphics cards in a SLI setup. This notebook is available with up to 640GB of storage space and according to a manufacturing company it could store up to 107 modern day games or 160 movies in DVD format.

The Aurora m9700 is based on the AMD platform and it is powered by the AMD Turion 64 mobile family of processors and it is considered the preferred gaming machine from Alienware as its two Nvidia graphics cards based on the 7900 GS GPUs are offering extreme performance at an affordable price. This model too can be equipped with as much as two Samsung 320GB hard disk drives available in both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations.

Last in line, there is the most affordable Alienware laptop to integrate the new storage solution from Samsung, the Area-51 m5550, which is too based on Intel Core 2 Duo processors but it comes with a single discrete graphics card made by Nvidia that offers 256 of dedicated video memory. On the storage department the m5550 is able to house a single 320GB drive that can be augmented by the presence of an additional 64GB solid state drive.

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