Hitachi 100-Gigabyte Notebook Hard Drives Offer Advanced Feature Set for Broad Range of End-User Needs.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Native Serial ATA Support and Enhanced Availability Broaden Capabilities of Hitachi 2.5-inch Hard Drives
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is bringing to market the best combination of notebook hard-drive attributes in its new Travelstar 5K100 for standard notebook applications and E5K100 for more demanding data-access applications. The 100-gigabyte (GB*) hard drives offer the broadest capacity points, the highest shock tolerance and the lowest power consumption in their category. In addition, these new drives offer native Serial ATA (SATA) support.
Hitachi's newest 5400 RPM Travelstar products are also environmentally friendly. The drives are more than a year ahead of schedule in complying with the European Commission's RoHS directive for eliminating certain hazardous materials in the manufacturing of electronic equipment.
The leadership attributes of the Travelstar 5K100 and E5K100 help Hitachi to meet the varying needs of end-users, from consumer to enterprise**. In addition to achieving industry-leading specifications for power, shock and capacity offerings, Hitachi has also maintained excellent performance, acoustics and reliability characteristics on its new drives.
"The combination of these characteristics has produced the most comprehensive offerings in the 2.5-inch, 5400 RPM hard drive category, which gives customers tremendous value for their investment," said Bob Holleran, general manager, 2.5-inch/1.8-inch Consumer & Commercial HDDs, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. "In the past, increased storage capacity was the primary measure of technology advancement for hard disk drives; and while capacity still matters a great deal today, it's sharing the spotlight with other attributes that address the full range of end-user requirements."
The notebook landscape is rapidly changing, and Hitachi's approach to the 2.5-inch hard drive is changing with it. With notebooks quickly becoming a desktop-replacement solution, Hitachi is modifying attributes of the Travelstar drives to be more like a desktop (high capacity, high performance) in some respects, and more like a notebook in others (longer battery life, better acoustics, higher shock resistance). In yet another category, miniaturization and the need for around-the-clock data access in lower transaction environments is driving the requirement for enhanced-availability products in smaller footprints, which Hitachi is addressing with the addition of the Travelstar E5K100 model at 5400 RPM.
