Tag archive: Travelstar

Much action in the storage world these days centers on flash memory and solid-state drives, which benefit from low power consumption and durability—since they don't have any moving parts. However, the traditional hard drive business still has some life left in it, particularly since manufacturers are able to offer more storage at lower prices than flash—key for storage-intensive purposes like data centers and for folks who… Read More

Sure, flash-based storage is all the rage for portable devices like media players, tablets, and netbooks, but storage developer Hitachi is aiming to prove there's still a lot of life left in hard drive technology—and that hard drives still win the cost-per-gigabyte war, even for small portable devices. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has just introduced its new Travelstar Z5K500 hard drive—and says it's the highest… Read More

A lot of the buzz in the storage business lately might be around solid-state drives, but the traditional hard drive certainly isn't giving up without a fight. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has just announced its new TravelStar Z7K320 hard drive, the first in the company's new series of single-platter, 2.5-inch hard drives. The Z7K320 packs up to 320 GB of storage into a form factor measuring just 7mm high, enabling their use… Read More

If you love your notebook computer but lament its lack of storage capacity compared desktop systems (with all those tempting drive bays), then Hitachi has some good news for you: the company has announced two 500 GB 2.5-inch SATA hard drives suitable for use in notebook computers and other portable devices. The Travelstar 5K500 will be available in February, with the Travelstar E5K500 following in the second quarter of 2008. "The… Read More

From Hitachi's press release: In its next-generation disk-based storage technology for notebooks, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is looking beyond capacity to advance the art of hard disk drives. With storage-capacity leadership securely under its belt, Hitachi GST is introducing the new Travelstar 4K40 — not bigger, just better. As the leader in both 2.5-inch technology and segment share, Hitachi GST is making a bold… Read More