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Hitachi Travelstar

Hitachi Travelstar offers the most comprehensive range in rugged storage. Specifically designed for today’s ultra-portable electronic devices, and storage hungry applications, Travelstar hard drives are made for products on the go. And with capacities of up to 500GB, and the fastest speeds on the market, it’s easy to see why leading OEMs choose Hitachi.

As the market share leader since shipment of first 2.5-inch HDD, Hitachi provides the broadest and fastest range of 2.5-inch hard drives available today.

In Jan. 2008, Hitachi GST introduced Travelstar 5K500 - the world’s first half-terabyte drive for notebooks. Leading the industry as the first to introduce a 500GB, 5400RPM, 2.5-inch hard drive for entertainment powerhouse notebooks, this drive is extremely energy-efficient with RVS technology and 400Gs of shock protection.

The Travelstar 5K500 from Hitachi allows storage-hungry consumers to store up to 500 hours of digital video, 178 feature length movies, 250 games or 125,000 four-minute songs.
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Hitachi Travelstar 5K500 Hard Drives

Hitachi continues to drive notebook PC capacities higher with new 320GB, 7200 RPM Travelstar hard drives. Travelstar 7K320 – delivers 60 percent higher capacity than its predecessor, while improving application performance by 12 percent and power consumption by 22 percent. The drive’s quiet acoustics improve the experience of watching movies or listening to music on a notebook PC.

New Hitachi Travelstar drives also feature optional *Bulk Data Encryption for users requiring increased data security and enhanced availability models designed for use in 24x7 environments.

Hitachi’s Travelstar 5K250 delivers best-of-breed 5400 RPM application performance* with 250GB capacity.

*Hitachi GST’s "Bulk Data Encryption" is a hard-drive level data security mechanism that puts users’ data effectively under ‘lock and key, offering virtually impenetrable protections. With the rise in notebook theft and breaches in software-based password security, this feature is an essential component for notebook users.