Hitachi Global Storage, the opslagtak of Hitachi, has a laptopschijf with a height of 7mm ge lwa site. The remarkable thing about the drive is, however, the capacity, linked to the rotation speed; the single-platter spins at 7200rpm.
The single disc has the Hitachi 500GB of storage know. That combination, a single platter hdd with 500GB storage capacity, 7200rpm is running, is the world’s first, claims Hitachi. Previously, the company introduced already a 7mm thick single-platter-laptopschijf of 500GB, but that ran at 5400rpm. The drive is, of course, also smaller capacities available; Hitachi has the Travelstar Z7K500 also with space for 320 and 250GB. The drives could include together with a caching ssd in ultrabooks should be used.
The drives have a sata-600 interface and provide a buffer of 32MB. The absorbed power should be a maximum of 5.5 W, but in normal use, this falls to 1.8 W and in standby mode only 0.2 W is required. Thanks to the low height of only 7 millimeters are the discs suitable for use in very thin laptops, such as ultrabooks. Also, the weight is 95 grams low. The smaller variants are already manufacturers are available, but the 500GB version is only in march in mass production is taken.
