Originally published July 17 2005
Hitachi announces high-performance hard drive
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
In a press release from Business Wire, Hitachi announced the release of their Travelstar 4K120; an energy-efficient, high performing, 120-gigabyte, audio/video streaming enhanced, 4200 RPM 2.5-inch hard drive.
"While the 4K120 is primarily being used in the mainstream notebook segment, we've created a highly sophisticated hard drive that offers users the greatest value for their money for a range of applications," said Becky Smith, vice president, marketing, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
"The list of leadership characteristics that the 4K120 has accumulated is representative of the commitment and expertise Hitachi brings to the 2.5-inch segment and our expansion into the consumer electronics space."
As an added benefit, the 4K120's low power-consumption also results in cooler operation and longer battery life in notebook systems, which could result in extended service life for both the hard drive and host product.
In the notebook space, the 4K120 out-performs all other 4200 RPM 2.5-inch hard drives based on published specifications for seek time, read/write functions and data transfer rates.
While higher performance usually comes at the expense of power consumption, the 4K120 actually leads the industry in battery life due to the new Hitachi Voltage Efficiency Regulator Technology (HiVERT) in conjunction with other power management mechanisms.
In Hitachi's energy discharge test, the 4K120 shows between a 29- and 178-percent better power utilization than competitive 4200 RPM hard drives available on the market.
With hard drives among the top three heat producers in laptop computers (behind the processor and graphics card), the 4K120's significantly lower heat dissipation will reduce the overall heat emission of notebooks for greater lap comfort.
DVR manufacturers, who typically use 3.5-inch drives for video storage, are now looking for a new hard drive to go into devices that are quieter and smaller.
The Travelstar 4K120 continues the leadership established by Hitachi's Deskstar 3.5-inch product line by becoming the first 2.5-inch hard drive to offer the ATAPI/ATA-7 AV Streaming Command Set.
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