Asus has released details around their new K93 series of notebooks. Sure, they have the latest Intel processors and other great highlights like IceCool technology to keep the motherboard cool and an award-winning chicklet keyboard. But when it comes to storage the Asus K93SV really gets creative, sporting an option for dual drives with a 3.5" hard drive as the primary system drive.
Asus has released details around their new K93 series of notebooks. Sure, they have the latest Intel processors and other great highlights like IceCool technology to keep the motherboard cool and an award-winning chicklet keyboard. But when it comes to storage the Asus K93SV really gets creative, sporting an option for dual drives with a 3.5" hard drive as the primary system drive.
Asus lists the following storage configurations:
- 2.5" SATA
- 750GB 5400rpm/7200rpm
- 640GB 5400rpm
- 500GB 5400rpm/7200rpm
- 320GB 5400rpm
- Dual HDD Support(Optional)
- 3.5" SATA
- 1TB 7200rpm
A note at the bottom of the spec sheet indicates dual drives will be accomplished with the 3.5" drive being the primary and the second drive using the 2.5" bay. IceCool or not, the first concern when thinking about a high-performance 3.5" jammed in a notebook is heat. Asus may be using select drives in the 3.5" slot to help control heat, but even so, notebooks aren’t designed to manage the heat output from what are traditionally desktop hard drives.
We’ll have to wait and see what sort of interest there is in a system like this and what drive reliability looks like over the heat, bumps and bruises the 3.5" drive will be subject to. Regardless though, it’s an interesting take on storage in the mobile computing ecosystem.
