Hitachi announces 500Gb laptop drive - Asus to use two in new 1 terabyte M70 laptop

by Julian Prokaza
on Thu 03 Jan 2008 Comment

Hitachi 500Gb drive Hitachi has announced that it will be releasing a 500Gb 2.5in hard drive for laptops later this year. The Travelstar 5K500, which will also be available as a 400Gb model, is just 12.5mm thick and spins at 5,400rpm. The three-platter design has similar power requirements to the previous two-platter 250Gb drive, the 5K250 - 1.9w for read/write access and 0.7w while idle.

In addition to its low power consumption, Hitachi's 'Rotational Vibration Safeguard' technology makes the Travelstar well-suited to laptop use - it acts as an early warning system for impact shocks and stabilises the drive heads to prevent damage any data loss.  The Travelstar 5K500 will be available in February.

Asus will be the first manufacturer to offer the 5K500 drive in a laptop and it will fit a pair of them in its new M70 to offer 1Tb (1,073,741,824Mb, or 1024Gb) of storage capacity. The Asus M70 will be formally launched at the CES Show in Las Vegas next week.

[ Hitachi]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie
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