Hitachi's new 500 GB hard drives
Hitachi has launched a new range of 3.5 inch hard drives, a new Deskstar T7K500 drive, a Deskstar 7K160, and a CinemaStar drive for set-top boxes on Tuesday but interestingly all these newly launched drives do not match the capacity of Seagate's 750-GB drive.
So far no drive maker in the industry has come up with the matching drive for Seagate's 750GB drive.
The new Deskstar 500 and CinemaStar hard drives use 160GB+ per platter. The Deskstar comes in 500,400,320,250 GB capacity with 8.5ms average seek time and 4.17 ms average latency. The drives are available in both PATA and SATA interfaces with 8 to 16 MB buffers.
The CinemaStar drives, on the other hand, emphasize low acoustic noise. Like the Deskstar T7K500, the CinemaStar 7K500 ships in 500, 400, 320, and 250 Gbyte capacities.
Via: Extremetech
