Hitachi introduces hard drives for laptops

YEREVAN, January 15. /ARKA/.CES 2013 WD sub Hitachi GST is showing a fast, high capacity pocket disk drive at CES that sets a new product benchmark: a G-DRIVE with a 7,200rpm, 1TB Travelstar drive inside it, the register.co.uk reports.

This a brand new Travelstar drive. Mike Williams, the VP and general manager for G-Technology in the HGST Branded Business, said: "The new Travelstar drive is the first and only 7,200 RPM, 1TB, 9.5mm 2.5-inch drive, and delivers the highest 7,200 RPM performance in PCMark Vantage testing."

It will be called a Z7K1000 if Hitachi GST uses its existing naming scheme; the CES demo and release has come out before Hitachi GST's website is updated and before Hitachi GST offices are open, meaning there's no one we can ask until later today.

The previous highest-capacity 7.2K Travelstar was the 7K750, topping out at 750GB, with two platters. The Z7K500 is a 1-platter 500GB Travelstar that spins at 7,200rpm and has a 7mm depth measurement. We reckon the 1TB, 7,200rpm Travelstar is two of these ganged together, meaning it's a 2-platter drive. Hitachi GST has an existing 1TB 2.5-inch Travelstar, the 5K1000, which is slower, spinning at 5,400rpm.

The 1TB 7,200rpm Travelstar has a 32MB cache and uses the 6Gbit/s SATA interface.
Hitachi GST supplies even faster 10,000rpm enterprise 2.5-inch disk drives in its Ultrastar range but these are not available in the G-Technology branded range of products.—0-

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14:50 01/15/2013