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Cracking open a laptop hard drive

Laptops are quickly overtaking desktops as the computer of choice. The heart of any laptop, meanwhile, is its hard drive. Explore this photo gallery to see how one of the world's most popular mobile hard disks the Hitachi Travelstar is put together to power countless laptops. You'll gain a...

Tags: Hard Drive, Laptop Computer, Hardware, geekend, cracking open, laptop notebook portable mobile hard disk travelstar hitachi, Board, Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Travelstar, Storage, Mobile Marketing, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, Erik Eckel

Image galleries 2007-06-25

Additional Resources

Hitachi launches 500 GB laptop hard disk

Hitachi has announced a new whopping 500 GB 2.5-inch hard disk drive intended for gaming consoles and laptops. The Travelstar 5K500 model is available in either 400 GB or 500 GB capacity and runs off a 3.0 Gbps SATA interface. It is the world's highest capacity mobile internal hard drive...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Laptop Computer, Travelstar 5K500, Storage, Hardware, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2008-01-03

Innovative Power Solutions - HiVERT in Hitachi Hard Disk Drives

Since the introduction of its first 2.5-inch hard disk drive in 1991, Hitachi has continued to lead the market in solutions for mobile and portable hard disk drives that provide performance, low power consumption as well as durability features which can prolong the overall service life of the host system....

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-03-01

Hitachi Laptop HD replacement - where to obtain?

A friend's laptop quit booting, and it appears I need a new hard drive. Its for a Toshiba Satellite Pro mode, M15-S406The Hard Drive is a Hitachi Travelstar Model HTS548080M9AT00 (PN 08K0868).I am not sure where to procure direct replacements, or equivalent subsitutes. Anyone have suggestions?Thanks for your help!Rick

Tags: Storage, Notebooks, jdrick@..., Hitachi Ltd.

Discussion threads 2007-06-29

Compaq Hard Drive Password

I set a hard drive password via the bios in my old notebook the motherboard broke, and I let it sit on a shelf for a few years. Now I want to get information off the drive, but I have forgotten the password. I have tried putting it in a...

Tags: BIOS, Notebooks, majik503@..., Compaq Computer Corp., password

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

Audavi Uses Hitachi Travelstar 2.5" Drives to Invent "No Compromise" Removable Storage Solution

For more than 20 years, the world of removable storage has been dominated by floppy disks, tape, CDs and DVDs and a handful of exotic devices. Now a Milpitas, Calif. company is taking a fresh look at an old friend: hard disk drives. Using Travelstar hard disk drives from Hitachi...

Tags: Hard Drive, Removable Storage, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Flash Memory, Hardware

Case studies

Function Follows Form at iRiver With Hitachi Travelstar 1.8-Inch Hard Drive

In a world crowded with portable digital media devices, iRiver America Inc. is the "Keeper of Cool". iRiver wanted to be the first to come up with a consistent look and feel across the entire product family. iRiver's designers knew they were onto something, though, when they were shown the...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., iRiver, Storage, Hardware

Case studies

Hitachi ships encrypted hard drive

It seems only a very short while back that I wrote about the SanDisk hardware encrypted flash drive. But it looks like Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has also already begun volume shipment of the Travelstar 7k200 hard disk drive -- a high performance 7200rpm Serial ATA brute that offers...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Hardware, Advantage Obviously, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Voodoo Pumps Up PC Gaming Performance With Hitachi Travelstar Hard Drives

Voodoo Technology Inc. is located at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Voodoo's products, nearly all of which use Hitachi hard disk drives, sit at the top of a total video gaming market the at had 2002 revenues of more than $28 billion. Over the next decade, analysts forecast it will surpass the...

Tags: Voodoo, Hard Drive, PC, Hitachi Ltd., Computer Game, Storage, Hardware

Case studies

Hitachi is reconsidering the viability of its hard disk business

It appears that Japan's biggest electronics conglomerate, Hitachi Ltd., is considering selling a stake in its hard disk drive arm to a strategic investor. Due to competitive prices on hard disks, Hitachi has not posted a profit in its hard disk drive business ever since its acquisition...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Hard Disk Drive Business, Storage, Hardware, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Thermal Fly-Height Control (TFC) Technology in Hitachi Hard Disk Drives

The ever increasing demand for higher capacity storage devices continues to challenge Hard Disk Drive HDD companies to find innovative solutions for fundamental magnetic recording technology issues. One such issue is how to effectively OverWrite (O/W) pre-existing data, which is critical for good Soft Error Rate SER performance, over a...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-05-01

Error Access Denied in external hard disk

Hi,I need help on how I can open my external hard disk. Yesterday, its working fine and OK. I have to reformat a lenovo notebook, since the notebook cannot log-in to Windows, I try to rescue files by going to Rescue and Recovery option. I had plug in the USB...

Tags: Notebooks, external hard-disk, hard drive, notebook

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Portable hard disk no working

I had got my old laptop hard disk portable with casing and a USB connection which I have been using without any problems on my pc. But a few days back i am experiencing this problem of the hard disk not been recognized or detected on 'my computer'. Power is...

Tags: hard drive

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

2.5" Notebook hard drive crash

Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of a problem here. I have a 60 GB toshiba notebook hard drive that is no longer under warranty. I was using my laptop when one day it decided not to boot up once again. So, I purchased an external 2.5" notebook hard drive...

Tags: Notebooks, philbert513@..., hard drive, notebook, notebook hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-04-13

2.5" Notebook hard drive crash

Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of a problem here. I have a 60 GB toshiba notebook hard drive that is no longer under warranty. I was using my laptop when one day it decided not to boot up once again. So, I purchased an external 2.5" notebook hard drive...

Tags: Notebooks, philbert513@..., hard drive, notebook, notebook hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-04-13

hard drive appears blank with external enclosure kit

First, I'm no tech (as you'll probably notice from this post).Anyhow, our Toshiba laptop died -- problem with XP. It wouldn't boot up due to a problem with system32 or something like that. So, following the directions given for data retrieval elsewhere on this site, I bought an USB external...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, rrachac@..., disk, enclosure, laptop computer, operating system, hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-04-01

Bringing Solid State Drive Benefits to Computer Notebook Users

The benefits of flash are now becoming available to a new group of consumer electronics customers, computer notebook users. As a drop-in replacement for the traditional mechanical Hard Disk Drive HDD, the flash-based Solid State Drive SSD can be used inside thin and light laptops, ultra-portable, Ultra-Mobile PCs UMPCs and...

Tags: Solid State Disk, Computer, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Productivity, Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies

White papers 2007-04-01

Exploring the Popularity of Mobile Hard Disk Drives

The remarkable growth in the Mobile Hard Disk Drive HDD industry should come as a surprise to no one. While the huge popularity of notebook PCs has played a part in this surge, the main impact has come from the Consumer Electronics CE sector, which is taking the market by...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Mobile, Industry, Fujitsu Ltd., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2006-04-01

Hitachi ships encrypted hard drive

Now, I think that there is no doubt as to the usefulness of this device. However, do you think your management will buy into this hard disk, given that all laptops and PC already come with a pre-existing (non-encrypting) hard disk. How do you intend to persuade them?

Tags: paulmah@..., hard drive, Hitachi Ltd.

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

Portable Mail r1.3 (Mac)

Portable Mail is packaged so you can carry around on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device or also on your internal hard disk, taking your preferences and mailswith you. Is a shell scripts, bundled as applicaton using Platypus, that open local...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Preference, Portable Device

Software downloads 2006-10-24