Hitachi (
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Alert) Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) announced on Thursday, volume shipment of what the company is calling the industry's highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive including new optional data encryption technology.
With double capacity, and a 22-percent performance improvement over its predecessor, the 200-gigabyte (GB), 7200 RPM Travelstar 7K200, reigns supreme as the leader in this elite notebook hard drive segment.
Now with optional hard-drive level "Bulk Data Encryption" technology from Hitachi, the Travelstar 7K200 offers even notebook even greater help in guarding against data loss.
Dell (
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Alert) and Alienware will be the first to offer the Travelstar 7K200 on select systems--available immediately on all Dell XPS notebooks and on all Alienware notebooks.
Customers demanding the highest capacity storage found on mobile systems can create dual hard drive configurations with 400GB of available storage on the Aurora m9700 and the XPS M2010.
"Today's technology enthusiasts demand performance from every facet of their notebook computer," said Neil Hand, vice president, Dell's worldwide consumer marketing product group in a statement. "Incorporating best-in-class features, like the high-performance Travelstar 7K200, underscores Dell and Alienware's commitment to meet and exceed our mobile customers' expectations."
Hitachi will also offer 7200 RPM performance in an enhanced-availability version. The Travelstar E7K200 is designed for applications that require 24x7 data access.
"The 7200 RPM Travelstar is the rock star of our mobile hard drive family both for its technical merits and its desirability," said Shinjiro Iwata, chief marketing officer, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. "The enthusiastic response to date confirms that consumers are ever more sophisticated in their notebook requirements and that the Travelstar has become a status symbol among notebook aficionados. As the industries only third-generation 7200 RPM product, we believe the Travelstar 7K200 will continue to accelerate this trend."
Hitachi believes 7200 RPM 2.5-inch hard drives will account for 40 percent of all notebook hard drives shipped in 2010, representing a 25-percent compounded annual growth rate since 2005. Today, 7200 RPM products represent roughly 10 percent of total 2.5-inch shipments. The Travelstar 7K200, uses Hitachi's third-generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology.
Pradip Bhatacharya is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
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