Hitachi Announces 2.5-inch 750GB Notebook Hard Drives
Hitachi Announces 2.5-inch 750GB Notebook Hard Drives
Posted 10/05/2010 at 6:18am
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Hitachi's new Travelstar 5K750 and Travelstar 7K750 notebook hard drives boast the “highest capacities in a standard 9.5mm two-disk design.” The company has managed to wedge up to 750GB (375GB/platter) into a conventional 9.5mm hard drive enclosure, making the drives compatible with the vast majority of notebooks. The Travelstar 5K750 is a 5,400 RPM hard drive with an 8 MB buffer, and the 7K750 a 7,200 RPM drive with a 16MB buffer.
Available in 750GB, 640GB and 500GB capacities, they are the first Advanced Format hard drives from Hitachi, “allowing for increased drive capacities and improved data integrity at higher storage densities.” Advanced Format hard drives use 4096-byte physical sectors as opposed to the conventional 512-byte sectors.
“The Travelstar 5K750 family is currently shipping in volume. Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 Retail Hard Drive Kits will be available in November with a suggested retail price of $129.99. The Travelstar 5K750 EA version will be shipping to OEMs for qualification by the end of the year,” Hitachi said in a release. “The 7,200 RPM Travelstar 7K750 family, including EA versions and retail kits, will be available in Q1 2011.”
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Obsidian
October 05, 2010 at 10:27am
When will some HD vendor figure out how to properly do a hybrid drive that has a 32GB, or larger, boot sector on it that's SSD and then incorporates tried and true spindle/platter tech for volume? All in the same 2.5-inch enclosure, or hell, even 3.5-inch for my desktop PC. I know it's a stop-gap product, but I don't want to give up the massive space at the price point for my traditional hard drive(s). And I don't want to pay the crazy rate per GB for the SSD.
I'm glad to see this is the 'standard' 9.5mm height.
compro01
October 07, 2010 at 10:12am
Wait for the ATA-8 standard to get done. Hybrid drives will be part of it, and then maybe we can get useful implimentations of them.
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