Hitachi ships world's fastest notebook hard drive (Press Release)

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Hitachi ships world's fastest notebook hard drive (Press Release)

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Hitachi ships world's fastest notebook hard drive (Press Release)

Hitachi is today announcing volume shipment of the industry’s highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive with new optional data encryption technology.

With double the capacity and a 22-percent performance improvement over its predecessor, the 200-gigabyte (GB), 7200 RPM Travelstar™ 7K200 reigns supreme as the leader in this elite notebook hard drive segment. Now, with optional hard-drive level “Bulk Data Encryption” technology from Hitachi, the Travelstar 7K200 offers even greater cachet to notebook users by helping to guard against data loss and piracy.

Dell and Alienware will be the first to offer the Travelstar 7K200 on select systems. It is available immediately on all Dell™ XPS™ notebooks and on all Alienware® notebooks. Customers demanding the highest capacity storage found on mobile systems can create dual hard drive configurations with 400GB of available storage on the Aurora m9700 and the XPS M2010.

Despite the higher motor spin speed, the 7200 RPM Travelstar 7K200 offers comparable power consumption, heat emission and acoustics to its 5400 RPM counterparts. Hitachi will also offer 7200 RPM performance in an enhanced-availability version. The Travelstar E7K200 is designed for applications that require 24x7 data access.

More detailed information can be found in the original press release.

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Posted by DukeNukem on Thursday 10 May 2007 19:45

Sounds like a sweet drive. I still want a Raptor, though.

Posted by Paul (guest) on Thursday 10 May 2007 21:43

"Hitachi ships world's fastest notebook hard drive" -
WRONG!
SEAGATE has a 10,000 RPM, 146GB notebook hard drive

Posted by Paul (guest) on Thursday 10 May 2007 22:07

"Hitachi ships world's fastest notebook hard drive" -
SEAGATE also has 15,000 RPM notebook hard drives:

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/savvio/savvio_15k/

Posted by Jughead on Friday 11 May 2007 00:18

can a regular SATA controller in a notebook accept a SAS drive?
This message was edited at: 11-05-2007 00:21

Posted by lanky on Friday 11 May 2007 01:45

Normal SATA cannot control a SAS drive.

Posted by stevehyper12nitro on Saturday 12 May 2007 11:00

Paul your totally wrong, that hard drive is for a server not a laptop, a 15k hard drive in a laptop would make it melt!!! Also those hard drives are physically too big to put in a laptop anyway, and the capactiy being 146Gb, they would be going back in technology as Hitachi has a 200GB disk. SAS is the new standard to replace SCSI (OLD technology)

Posted by AVM (guest) on Friday 22 February 2008 00:42

Hey, so I spent $220 on a 100 gb TravelStar 7200 rpm notebook drive to replace my stock 60gb hard drive that failed, and while it was okay for a while (with no noticeable performance increase in my PowerBook G4) I'm afraid after two months this thing is no better. It's doing the click whirr thing over and over. Here I am laying down another $80 so I can replace it with a cheap 5400 rpm drive that will enable me to use my PowerBook once again. It sucks and I hate it. Stupid notebook hard drives. Stupid notebooks!

To this day I tell everyone my hard earned lesson of buying a laptop. Just don't do it, ever, for eternity. Get a desktop and leave the computer at home! In return you will get a faster machine that's cheaper and more reliable. If I had only known!

Now I'm going to drink a lot of alcohol because I'm really tired of laptops and laptop hard drives. Cheers, everyone.

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