Hitachi GST just announced that their new Travelstar 7K500 drive has started shipping to the first OEM’s; volume shipments should begin later this month. With the 7K500 Hitachi is catching up with Seagate’s Momentus drives that have been available for a while. The drive also faces competition from Toshiba in the high performance/low power segement: [...]
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Just days after Hitachi announced their 2 TB, 7200 rpm drive started shipping The Register reports hearing rumors about a similar drive from Western Digital. WD has been shipping a 2 TB drive for several months, but this is a 5400 rpm “green” version; the new model is running at a more performance-oriented 7200 rpm: [...] Hitachi has just announced that they are the first company to offer a 2 TB harddisk operating at 7200 rpm. The new drive is called the Deskstar 7K2000, and will compete against 2 TB drives from Western Digital and Seagate, which run at 5900 and 5400 rpm respectively. The extra speed should give the drive [...] | You can receive the latest news via: | ||||
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