Hitachi expands its Travelstar Z-series with the new Z7K500, the industry’s first 7,200 RPM, 7mm z-height, One-Disk, 500GB mobile hard drive. The new drive is also the industry’s first 2.5-inch with SATA III 6Gbps interface and a 32MB cache. The 500GB per platter, one-disk models are designed as a direct replacement for standard 9.5mm HDDs, for use in notebook PCs, external storage and gaming consoles as well as new slimmer device designs. Thanks to the SATA 6Bbps inteface, 7200RPM spinning speed and 32MB cache, the thin Z7K500 delivers up to 33 percent more performance in

Hitachi is now shipping its new Ultrastar C10K900 family enterprise hard drive, wich is the highest performance, most power efficient 10K HDD for tier 1 enterprise networked storage arrays, blades and other rack-mounted servers, according to the company. The new 2.5-inch drives run at 10,000RPM and feature SAS 6Gbps interface for reliable data throughput. They has 64MB cache memory for optimized read/write response time. The Ultrastar C10K900 is available in 300GB, 450GB, 600GB and 900GB capacities. The new enterprise drives feature Hitachi’s Advanced Power Management

Samsung announced its Spinpoint M8 internal hard drive for notebook, which consists of two 500GB platters to provide 1TB storage space. The 2.5-inch drive has a form factor of 9.5mm height to comfortably fit in mobile computing applications. According to Samsung, the high density was achieved by utilizing advanced format technology (AFT), which raises the data storage density per unit area, enabling efficient and convenient data storage. Samsung’s Spinpoint M8 uses SATA 3Gbps interface and comes with 8MB buffer memory. It features EcoSeek and NoiseGuard for minimal noise

Seagate launches the GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless hard drive (model STBF500101), the first battery-powered external hard drive to wirelessly stream content to any WiFi-enabled mobile device. Seagate’s new drive has 500GB of storage capacity. It suppprts WiFi 802.11b/g/n allowing users to access stored movies, photos, music and documents wirelessly from iPad and other mobile devices via dedicated app or web browser. It is able to stream media over Wi-Fi to 3 iPads at the same time. In addition to WiFi, the GoFlex Satellite also comes with a USB 3.0 USM adapter with

Hitach Global Storage has announced two new hard drive families, the 3.5-inch CinemaStar 5K2000 series and the 2.5-inch CinemaStar C5K750 series, both optimized for nd fine-tuned for the audio/video (A/V) market, such as digital video recorder (DVR), IPTV set-top-box (STB), video surveillance and emerging hard drive-embedded TV markets. The 3.5-inch CinemaStar 5K2000 is available in 1.5TB and and 2TB capacities with 667GB per platter. It features CoolSpin Technology and are nearly silent at 2.4 bels during operation and draw only 4.2W or less idle power. The 2.5-inch CinemaStar

Along with new Pulsar enterprise solid state drives, Seagate also announced two new enterprise hard drives, the Savvio 15K.3 and Savvio 10K.5 built to deliver high performance, reliability, and capacity for tier 1, mission-critical server and storage systems. These 2.5-inch drives use the latest 6Gb SAS interface. The Savvio 15K.3 is optimized for ier 1 storage applications. It is avialable in 146GB and 300GBGB and offers 15000RPM spin speed. The Savvio 10K.5 10,000RPM drive comes in 900GB, 600GB, 450GB, 300GB. It is available with a choice of 6Gb/s SAS or 4Gb Fibre Channel

Asus unveils the Lamborghini External Hard Drive with a stylish, elegant design inspired by the unique sporty look of Lamborghini supercars for you to “run with the bulls in style.” The drive comes with 500GB or 750GB capacity and includes FlexSave software for easy file management. To fit the speediness Lamborghini cars, the 2.5-inch hard drive uses USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface and is backward compatible with USB 2.0. It also supports one-click auto backup function saves and protects valuable data. The Lamborghini hard drive is available in white and black and comes with a

Hitachi announced the new Travelstar Z5K500, the industry’s highest capacity, one-disk, 7 millimeter (mm) z-height hard disk drive with 500GB capacity. The 2.5-inch drive uses SATA 3Gb/s interface and has 8MB cache memory. It operates at 5400RPM and features generation Advanced Format drive, which increases the physical sector size on HDDs from 512 bytes to 4,096 (4K) bytes, thereby improving drive capacity and error correction capabilities. The 7mm Travelstar Z5K500 includes optional bulk data encryption (BDE) for hard drive level data security. It is available in 250GB,

Toshiba MK1060GSCX Toshiba introduces two new 2.5-inch hard drives, the 100GB SATA interface MK1060GSCX and the 80GB PATA interface MK8050GACY designed for rugged 24-hour continuous operation computing, industrial, and other extreme environments, such as ATMs, digital surveillance, factory automation, and ruggedized PCs. Toshiba MK8050GACY According to Toshiba, the MK1060GSCX and MK8050GACY feature a “case temperature” range of -15 to +70 degrees Celsius, which is the widest temperature range for 24/7 power-on operation in the HDD market. Both of them have 4200RPM rotational

Verbatim launches the Acclaim, one of the industries smallest portable hard drive that comes in piano-black, fire-engine red and electric blue finishes. The Acclaim is available in 320GB, 500GB, 750GB and 1TB storage capacities. Each Verbatim Acclaim hard drive comes pre-loaded with Turbo USB Software and Nero BackItUp Software. The drive works with both Windows PC and Mac. You can find the Verbatim Acclaim hard drive at Amazon.com. [verbatim]