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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

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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: Function, Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., iRiver, Storage, Hardware
Case studies
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, 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
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
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., Storage, Hardware
Case studies
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
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
Adaptive Battery Life Extender
When it comes to mobile computing, battery life is very important. Since a major user of battery power is the disk drive, it makes sense to ensure that the disk drive uses as little power as possible. That's why Adaptive Battery Life Extender was invented. And that's why the latest...
Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Battery, Engineering
White papers
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
Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Technology
An exciting new magnetic recording technology has been introduced into hard drive storage. Perpendicular Magnetic Recording PMR offers the customer higher capacities, improved reliability and robustness, and a very positive outlook for future growth in capacity and performance. Through the efforts of a company-wide taskforce, Hitachi's first PMR drive, Travelstar...
Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Perpendicular Magnetic Recording, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2006-05-01
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
help!!!
i bought a hard disk off f---in e-bay because im a cheap ass and its password protected. I cant get any help from the seller.The computer is a dell latitude C600 -IBM Travelstar 20.gig. could anyone offer me some ideas on how to get aroud the password.I dont want any...
Tags: battery, BIOS, CMOS, flalenpeel@..., hard drive, windows
Q&A 2005-12-02
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
IDE Disk Test going nowhere fast
IDE Disk Test going nowhere fastHi,First post here guys, so be gentle ;-)My laptop (HP Omnibook XE3) crashed a horrific crash a few days ago and on attemted reboot could no longer find a hard drive. I managed to start a diagnostic through the Hewlett Packard troubleshooting system on startup.It...
Tags: hard drive, hardware, HDD, IDE, NB HDD, neil_walsh@..., notebook
Q&A 2005-06-25
Best of 2007: Cracking Open
Cracking Open the Apple iPhone The iPhone blends a revolutionary touch-screen interface, media player, and smartphone into a slick package. No wonder everyone wanted to see it cracked open. We waited in line, spent $600, signed a two-year AT&T contract, and activated our iPhone -- then...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Hard Drive, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Apple iPod, Sony PlayStation 3, Apple iPod Nano, iRobot Roomba, Video, Nintendo Wii, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Cara Reynolds
Blog posts 2007-12-03
Removable USB HDD failure
Recently I connected my USB Hitachi 40G removable Hard drive to another computer & it did not appear to be getting enough power from that USB port, so I disconnected it. When i tried to use it again at home, my computer would not bring up a volume or...
Tags: disk, USB, bastet@..., windows, computer, USB flash drive
Q&A 2006-02-08
Self repairing hard disk?
Hi, my abused asus laptop's HD suddenly failed weeks ago, without s.m.a.r.t. warnings. Horrible click ang clank noises came out when trying to access heavily damaged sectors. Thousands of bad sectors occurred over the whole drive with almost regular intervals, always getting worse. Then, while left scanning the surface for...
Tags: hd, HDD, hard drive, etord@..., hardware, bad sector, backup
Q&A 2006-03-14
Replace your desktop with Gateway's speedy, feature-packed 600XL
The Gateway 600XL's features, size, and blazing performance blur the line between desktop replacement and desktop PC. It's a stellar system for home or office.By Dan LittmanMost of the mobile Pentium 4 notebooks we've tested to date qualify as desktop replacements, but the Gateway 600XL tops them all. It's bigger,...
Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, FireWire, CNET, desktop, Gateway 600XL, Gateway Inc., notebook
Technical articles 2002-08-06
Get IT Done: Check your RAM chips when a Windows installation fails
Having performed more Windows installs than I care to admit, installation errors are old hat. And in my experience, a hard drive issue, Windows hardware compatibility problem, licensing crisis, or a corrupt installation file is usually the culprit. But I recently encountered an installation error that illustrates how a seemingly...
Tags: Bill Detwiler, chip, error message, Get IT Done, hard drive, Hitachi Ltd., laptop computer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, RAM
Technical articles 2003-02-05
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