14 DAY TRIAL // It's one thing to release a computer with more than the usual share of storage, and another to break whatever bounds were previously set in place. On the laptop industry, Eurocom has just achieved the latter.
Eurocom has officially launched the Panther mobile workstation. Well, that's not quite true. The Panther series is very old already.
What the company really did was break the 6 TB storage barrier. It somehow managed to cram four 1.5 TB hard disk drives into a single notebook.
Said drives are 1.5 TB HGST Travelstar 5k1500 SATA 6 Gb/s and are configured in one of several possible RAID modes: RAID 0/1/5/10.
"Eurocom understands that modern professionals are requiring larger and larger storage capacity, running heavy duty applications such as Autodesk and Solidworks, that is why we are now offering the 1.5 TB HGST Travelstar 5k1500 to our clients, on top of high performance," said Mark Bialic, Eurocom president.
Of course, anyone who can settle for less storage or wants faster drives can choose one of the multiple other HDD and SSD options.
In any event, the 17.3-inch laptop (Full HD display of 1920 x 1080 pixels) relies on the Intel Core i7-3970X Extreme or XEON E5-2600 series CPU, as well as the X79 chipset. Single and dual graphics cards are included as well (up to 100W per card).
For those who want the storage details, the Travel Star 5K1000 from HGST (Western Digital's new division, formerly Hitachi) works through SATA 6.0 Gbps connections (SATA III) and has a rotary speed of 5,400 RPM.
Alone, it doesn't make for very fast transfers, but the RAID configuration enhances the data movement considerably, close to SSD levels.
All in all, the technical details, down to the four DDR3 slots (up to 32 GB of DDR3 1600 MHz RAM) aren't bad at all for a laptop measuring 419 x 286 x 57.9-62.1 mm / 16.76 x 11.44 x 2.31-2.48 inches. Prices will be huge and varied based on configurations.