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Hitachi builds a half-terabyte notebook hard drive
HITACHI has announced a 500GB capacity hard drive intended for 2.5-inch applications such as gaming consoles, laptops and compact desktops.
The company says the Travelstar 5K500 model is available with either 400GB or 500GB capacity and uses a 3.0Gbps SATA interface. Hitachi claims the unit is the world's highest capacity mobile internal hard drive.
The new hard drive employs Hitachi's patented Rotational Vibration Sensing technology to help guard against head crashes and has 400G shock protection. It is a three-platter design but only requires the same amount of power as its two-platter 5K250 predecessor, that is, a 1.9 watt read/write draw and just 0.7 watt at idle.
The Travelstar 5K500 drives will be available from February. By the third quarter 2008, Hitachi will also offer enhanced-availability versions as E5K500 models for lower activity uses such as in blade servers and video surveillance systems. µ
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AND it's bigger than the standard size!

Go hitatchi!
Nice to see a high capacity 2.5 inch drive. But are they 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm? What are the rated access times and transfer rates?
as engadget reported, this doesnt actually fit in the standard 2.5" spec, its a bit bigger due to and extra platter http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/hitachis-5k500-e5k500-hit-the-mythical-500gb-mark-for-laptops/
...the last time I could buy a 12.5mm drive it was an IBM 32Gb probably 7 years ago for a Dell Inspiron 7000. Everybody these days has standardised on 9.5mm so this isn't going to retrofit in many machines. I'll wait for Western Digital to do a 2 platter one.
my guess 4500RPM
Why not just call it a 500 gig drive? You guys [also] trying to appear to be more than you really are?