Previous comment by me was for 'Ron', not 'Jason'.

Hey jason, according to the datasheet, the travelstar 7k320 has a Higher Sustained Media Transfer rate (max) of;; 1136Mb/second
compared to Hitachi's own 1,000GB drive (deskstar 7k1000) with a Sustained Media Transfer rate (max) of only;; 1070Mb/second!

According to the datasheets, it should have a better STR than the 7k1000! WooT!

Its going to compete well with the high capacity desktop drives.

The real news here is the 320GB capacity. Not the 7K rotational velocity.

Both my laptops have Travelstar 7K200s. Previously they had 7K100s. Before that they had 7K60s.

It is unfortunate that Hitachi did not introduce a better product here.

a 400-500GB 7Krpm HD with 32-64MB of cache is the kind of upgrade I was hoping for to keep the developing SSD market at bay.


Catalin is right. I'm holding in my paw a Hitachi Travelstar 60 GB 7200 RPM ATA 2.5" drive. Birth date was November 2003. It is unfortunately no longer in service due to an ever increasing count of bad sectors. 
(Model:HTS726060M9AT00)

I sencond the opinion that Hitachi has 7200 rpm 2.5" drives for years. However there are other manufacturers like Seagate and Fujitsu producing similar drives.
NewEgg lists 21 7200 rpm 2.5" drives, which is 23% of notebook drives carried by them.
Granted, 320 is possibly highest capacity for this kind of drive to date.

Not at a 320GB capacity. And I know it is a different market, but previous 7.2k HDD have proved to be noisy, hot and power hungry. This one is supposed to be less of those.

Hitachi 7200RPM drives are available for years...

Yes been using 7200rpm drives in my laptops for ages. Its the first thing I do when I buy a new one. Rip out the 5400rpm 'thing' and put in a nice fresh 7200rpm Hitachi.

Forget the 4Gb of ram!