500 GB - the largest capacity for laptop hard drives

Since February 2008, Hitachi will begin selling the 2.5-inch Travelstar 5K500 hard drive using orthogonal recording technology to increase capacity and stability, with SATA interface with 3 Gb / sec data transfer rate. .

The product consumes less power, only 1.9 watts when reading / writing and 0.7 watts when the system does not work, equal to the 5K250 2-layer disk drive, thus does not affect the battery life of a normal laptop .

The device also features innovative features such as 400G anti-shock technology, remote anti-shake to "early warning" the potential risks to users balance the computer, avoid the reader and the disk damage hoo

Computer maker Asus said it would integrate the Travelstar 5K500 into M50 and M70 laptops.

Other research on orthogonal recording techniques shows that manufacturers have the ability to increase laptop hard drive capacity to 1.2 terabytes.

Viet Toan