Hitachi Travelstar Travelstar 5K500 400 & 500GB

pleccy2000 · Post by **pleccy2000** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:46 am

Read this today:

Looks like a real winner

HITACHI has announced a 500GB capacity hard drive intended for 2.5-inch applications such as gaming consoles, laptops and compact desktops.

The company says the Travelstar 5K500 model is available with either 400GB or 500GB capacity and uses a 3.0Gbps SATA interface. Hitachi claims the unit is the world's highest capacity mobile internal hard drive.

The new hard drive employs Hitachi's patented Rotational Vibration Sensing technology to help guard against head crashes and has 400G shock protection. It is a three-platter design but only requires the same amount of power as its two-platter 5K250 predecessor, that is, a 1.9 watt read/write draw and just 0.7 watt at idle.

The Travelstar 5K500 drives will be available from February. By the third quarter 2008, Hitachi will also offer enhanced-availability versions as E5K500 models for lower activity uses such as in blade servers and video surveillance systems

Source: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... f-terabyte

Atmosper · Post by **Atmosper** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:43 am

that is effin' sweet!

SileX · Post by **SileX** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:21 am

Great! That means that 2TB 3.5-inch models should be around the corner as well.

nutball · Post by **nutball** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:26 am

SileX wrote:Great! That means that 2TB 3.5-inch models should be around the corner as well.

Don't count on it. Look at the platter count of the current 1TB models and ask why we don't have 1.6TB models on the market right now.

winguy · Post by **winguy** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 7:53 am

Any single platter 160gb drive from Hitachi ?