{"id":108,"date":"2005-08-18T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T19:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/archives\/shock-resistant-hard-drive-on-dell-notebooks\/"},"modified":"2005-08-18T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T19:20:19","slug":"shock-resistant-hard-drive-on-dell-notebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/archives\/shock-resistant-hard-drive-on-dell-notebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock resistant hard drive on DELL  notebooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme Tech reports about the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/article2\/0,1558,1848702,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532\">Dell\u2019s Rugged HD<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dell Inc. said Tuesday that it has added an optional shock-resistant hard drive on select notebook computers, specifically the Latitude D610 and Dell Precision M20 mobile workstation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dell welcomes the challenge of delivering product enhancements based on customer feedback and driving high-end technologies into the mainstream,&#8221; said Gretchen Miller, director, worldwide notebook product marketing, in a statement. &#8220;Our current Latitude and Dell Precision mobile platforms, with the Tri-Metal chassis, reinforced LCD backs and sealed keyboards, continue the Dell tradition of excellent durability, and we look forward to improving on this quality standard.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The 30-GB hard drive will be priced as an $129 add-on, although the ruggedized drive will provide a 145 percent upgrade ot the drive&#8217;s shock protection &#8212; which, to Dell, means a 145 percent increase in the height above a carpeted floor that a notebook can be dropped and still function.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme Tech reports about the Dell\u2019s Rugged HD: &#8220;Dell Inc. said Tuesday that it has added an optional shock-resistant hard drive on select notebook computers, specifically the Latitude D610 and Dell Precision M20 mobile workstation. &#8220;Dell welcomes the challenge of delivering product enhancements based on customer feedback and driving high-end technologies into the mainstream,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maindot.com\/technologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}