Hitachi GST has unveiled its fifth-generation, 7200 RPM mobile hard disk drive — the Hitachi Travelstar 7K500. The 500GB, 2.5-inch, 3Gb/s SATA drive has been designed for notebooks, gaming systems and professional external storage solutions. The new Travelstar 7K500 is a hardy drive and the fastest in its class delivering up to 56 percent higher capacity and 16 percent better application performance than its predecessor. It also provides best-of-breed operating shock and outstanding power management for sturdy, unplugged notebook performance. The Travelstar 7K500 is also one of the first mobile drives to be compliant with the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Opal storage security specification, a new open standard designed to strengthen data protection and safeguard notebooks in the event of system loss or theft. When the Hitachi BDE option is enabled, the hard drive will encrypt all data that comes from the system as it is written to the media. When read back, the drive decrypts the data so that it can be understood by the system. Since the hard drive is doing the encryption work, there is no impact on system performance“Portable PC shipment growth continues to be one of the most significant market drivers underpinning 2.5-inch disk drive demand, and is a major reason why IDC expects the 2.5-inch mobile HDD market will grow at a 16.8 percent 2008-2013 compound annual growth rate,” said John Rydning, research director for hard disk drives at IDC. “Hitachi’s new 500GB mobile 2.5-inch HDD with a 7,200 rpm spin-speed provides PC OEMs an opportunity to differentiate PCs with both capacity and performance.”
The Travelstar 7K500 has also been designed for energy efficiency with superior low power consumption at 0.69 watts idle power and 1.8 watts during read/write operations, leading to longer battery life in notebooks and other mobile applications. Volume shipments of the Travelstar 7K500 will begin later this month. Capacities include 120GB, 160GB, 250GB, 320GB and 500GB.
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