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Travelstar 5K500: World’s Highest Capacity 2.5” Hard Drive The new Travelstar 5K500 delivers up to half-terabyte of capacity, setting a new industry benchmark for mobile hard drive capacities. This breakthrough product addresses a growing demand for high-capacity drives that are at the heart of today’s full-featured notebooks, external storage devices, gaming consoles and other mobile devices.

Hitachi's "Super-Pendicular" Hard Drive Offers Steely Reliability With concerted and meticulous effort to develop, test and bring to market new perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology that would stand up to or exceed the reliability expectations of current longitudinal recording technology, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) has achieved its goal with the most reliable and technically-advanced 2.5-inch hard drive in the Travelstar 5K160.

The New Yorker Entrusts 81 Years of Content to Hitachi Hard Drive Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ Travelstar hard disk drive has been selected to deliver 81 years worth of The New Yorker content. "The Complete New Yorker" is now available to consumers on a handheld portable storage device from Hitachi channel partner Pexagon, which offers 80GB of storage using Hitachi’s market-leading Travelstar 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive.

Hitachi Readies Technology Roadmap for Projected Doubling of 2.5-Inch Segment in 2010 Perpendicular magnetic recording shipments hit one million Our 2.5-inch Travelstar product line recently experienced a 36% quarter-over-quarter growth in unit shipments, thus maintaining its position (for nearly 15 years) as the world’s most popular 2.5-inch hard drive.

Accolades Roll In for 7200 RPM Mobile Hard Drives High Performance Track Record Bolsters Hitachi ’s Second-generation Product Hitachi has long been a leader in the 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive (HDD) segment, offering 4200 and 5400 RPM drives to mobile users; but when the company introduced the first 7200 RPM 2.5-inch HDD in May 2003 – the Travelstar 7K60 – Hitachi ignited an industry change that would drastically improve the productivity of laptop users. Prior to the introduction of the Travelstar 7K60, those requiring high performance were resigned to traditional desktop PCs.

Perpendicular Recording: A Boon for Consumer Electronics Advancements to 100-year-old Recording Technology Open Doors for 10-fold Hard Drive Capacity Expansion While the hard drive industry has been using longitudinal recording successfully for five decades, it is now within two product generations of reaching its practical limit.

Different Strokes for Different Folks Hard Drives and Flash Co-Exist in Consumer Electronic Devices When the first MP3 players, digital cameras and other portable entertainment devices burst onto the shelves of consumer electronics stores, only one technology was available for storing music and photos – flash memory, a form of non-volatile semiconductor devices capable of storing data when the power is turned off. It didn’t take long, however, for hard drive manufacturers to recognize an opportunity to expand consumer choice with storage devices that could affordably store more songs and pictures.

Mobile Workers Help Shape the Future of Storage It wasn’t so long ago the notebook computer was the “Mini Me” of the personal computer world – a frequent flyer’s luxury that was anemic in features compared to its desktop cousins. Indeed, anything other than tapping out an email offline or tallying figures on a spreadsheet was left to the desktop. There simply wasn’t enough “oomph” to do much more.


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