Hitachi has announced the shipping of its 7200 RPM Travelstar 7K200 2.5″ harddrive and claims that it is world’s fastest notebook harddrive with the most capacity on the market. Except from its impressive performance the 200GB harddrive also offers security functions in the form of data encryption technology, although optional. Hitachi says that both Dell and Alienware have implemented the new Travelstar 7K200 harddrive. Hitachi has some great plans, not just for its own 2.5″ harddrives, but the market as a whole. It namely believes that close to 40 percent of all mobile harddrives will be 7200RPM models in 2010.
“With double the capacity and a 22-percent performance improvement over its predecessor, the 200-gigabyte (GB), 7200 RPM Travelstar™ 7K200 reigns supreme as the leader in this elite notebook hard drive segment. Now, with optional hard-drive level “Bulk Data Encryption” technology from Hitachi, the Travelstar 7K200 offers even greater cachet to notebook users by helping to guard against data loss and piracy.”
