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Hitachi brings laptop storage up to 500GB

by Parm Mann on 3 January 2008, 11:02

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Fancy half a terabyte of storage in your laptop?

 

You can never have too much storage, particularly when on the move with your laptop. Now, though, thanks to Hitachi's Travelstar 5K500 notebook drive, you can look forward to accessing half a terabyte of storage when out on the road. The new Travelstar makes Hitachi the first to reach the 500GiB mark in a 2.5in drive and the range will also include 400GiB models.

Hitachi 5K500

How did the company do it? Well, it's not as scientific as you'd think. Hitachi has squeezed another platter into the assembly, making the SATA drive ever so slightly thicker. Though listed as a 2.5in notebook drive, the 5K500 is actually 3mm wider than standard and, as a result, probably won't fit your laptop. Full dimensions are 70(w) x 100(d) x 12.5(h) mm.

Hitachi's new drives will initially be available only to OEMs and, fortunately for us storage-craving users, ASUS is already on board and will be featuring the 500GiB model in its M50 laptop. ASUS's M70 laptop goes one better, squeezing in two of these beauties for a whopping one terabyte (unformatted) of portable storage.



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Though listed as a 2.5" notebook drive, the 5K500 is actually 3mm larger and as a result, it probably won't fit your laptop.
Its a “standard” 12.5mm drive.

Modern drives are slim 9mm drives, but the 2.5“ standard is 12.5mm.

Looks like desktop 3.5” drives are lagging now, where's my 2TB drive ? ;)
There is also an enterprise class 24/7 usage drive as well, I'guess these would go great in a SAS/SATA RAID array, you don't have the 9.5mm constraint there.

Anyway, it isn't like this is the only 12.5mm high drive out there. I bought a 250GB Fujitsu MHX2250BT and had to return it because it is also 12.5mm thick. This was back in the summer. Still on sale on Scan too.
More and more space - I want a 512GB SSD drive c'mon!
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More and more space - I want a 512GB SSD drive c'mon!

for storage I presume?