Hitach Launches 200 GB Mobile HDD

Hitachi has announced the availability of its latest mobile HDD, the 'Travelstar 7K200', which offers a storage capacity of 200GB and a spindle speed of 7200RPM. This drive can be equipped with hardware-level “Bulk Data Encryption” for protection of a user’s data.

"The 7200 RPM Travelstar is the rock star of our mobile hard drive family both for its technical merits and its desirability," said Hitachi Global Storage chief marketing officer Shinjiro Iwata. "The enthusiastic response to date confirms that consumers are ever more sophisticated in their notebook requirements and that the Travelstar has become a status symbol among notebook aficionados. As the industry’s only third-generation 7200 RPM product, we believe the Travelstar 7K200 will continue to accelerate this trend."

These drives will be available on high-end laptops from Dell and Alienware. The first model to get these drives will be the Aurora m9700 and Dell XPS M2010.