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Hitachi's TravelStar 5K250 laptop drive hits 250GB
And Hitachi makes three. Crashing Samsung's and Fujitsu's 9-mm thin, 250GB laptop disk party is Hitachi's new TravelStar 5K250. Spinning at 5,400rpm, it brings along your choice of SATA 3Gbps and 1.5Gbps interfaces, an 11-ms mean seek time, 8MB data buffer, 24dB rattle when idle (26dB operational), and 1.8W average power draw during read/write cycles. Pretty consistent with the others until you factor in Hitachi's optional Bulk Data Encryption to safeguard data from loss or criminal harvesting. Shipping in volume today for an undisclosed price. [Via Impress]
Hitachi's 2.5-inch Travelstar 7K200: 200GB, 7,200 RPM, bulk encryption
While 200GB laptop drives are nothing new -- we've already seen models from a number of manufacturers, and even a 300GB behemoth from Fujitsu -- Hitachi is claiming that its latest 2.5-inch HDD, the Travelstar 7K200, is the "industry's highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive with optional data encryption technology." Said bulk encryption, which uses a key to scramble and unscramble data as it's written and read, is implemented at the hardware level and is said to obviate the need for devices such as degaussers because users can simply delete the key before disposing of the drive. You'll be able to get your hands on a retail 7K200 sometime this summer for about $250, or if you simply can't wait for this supposedly unrivaled combo of capacity and security, Dell is offering these platters immediately on all its XPS and Alienware notebooks, with 400GB dual-drive configurations also available. [Via PC Launches]
