HITACHI ALL SET TO LAUNCH THE 320GB HARD DISK

Hitachi is upgrading its Travel Star notebook hard drive variant with an additional voluminous 320GB disk that revolves at 7,200rpm. The renewal follows Fujitsu's declaration of its own 320GB, 7,200rpm laptop disk drive, for which the corporation staked a "world's 1st" claim back in March. As we barbed out then - the timing left an opening for a challenge to the hard drive makers to pounce in and strike Fujitsu to market. Here's that forecast fulfilled on reminder. Fujitsu says it’s MHZ2 BJ 320GB will go on retailing at the last part of June. Hitachi is delivering its edition now.

The 2.5-inch Travelstar 7K320 pimps its almost year-old 7,200rpm precursor by a supplementary 120GB facility. Hitachi also maintains an appliance performance increase of 12 per cent, and abridged power utilization by 22 per cent. Power specifications are: 1.8W read/write command and 0.2W standby authority. The drive bonds across a SATA 3 GB /s interface or on the other hand 1.5 GB/s in variants loaded with an on-board automatic data encryption technology. Hitachi's drive is pointing out for laptop builders, compact desktops, gaming units, video observation systems, and cutting edge servers. For the concluding section Hitachi devices to ship only to the "superior-accessibility" versions.