Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has proclaimed the Travelstar 7K500, its fifth-generation, 7200 RPM portable hard disk drive which is aim for notebook, gaming system as well as specialized external storage solutions.

The Travelstar 7K500 is a 2.5-inch 500GB hard drive that make use of 3Gb/s SATA interface as well as present a 7,200 rpm spin-speed. The Travelstar 7K500 also present hardware-based Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) as an selection as well as is the foremost mobile drives to be amenable with the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Opal storage security requirement.

Hitachi’s 7K500 is intended for power competence with little power utilization at 0.69 watts unused power as well as 1.8 watts in read/write operations. It is currently obtainable for top level OEMs. Additional capacities contain 120GB, 160GB, 250GB as well as 320GB and Hitachi will free in November an enhanced-availability (EA) version that s specially intended for applications requiring 24×7 operation in lesser operation surroundings like blade servers, network routers as well as surveillance systems.

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