Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 Perpendicular HDD

Hitachi claims its Travelstar 5K160 to be the most reliable and technically-advanced 2.5-inch hard drive in the world. The 160-gigabyte Travelstar 5K160 is a 5400 RPM 2.5-inch hard drive designed for notebook and mobile computing.





The top three contributors to hard-drive reliability are technologies that most strongly resist media corrosion, head instability and head/disk interference. Hitachi has addressed these factors through the following mechanisms, which have significantly impacted overall drive reliability:

Implementation of Hitachi-unique alloy combination and layer-deposition process produced PMR media with best-of-breed properties for corrosion resistance;
Use of new PMR write head greatly improved soft error rate through ability to write smaller data bits more sharply and with greater fidelity;
Use of the read-head alloy iridium-manganese-chromium (IrMnCr) showed more than a 2X improvement in field reliability among available hard drives using the new IrMnCr read sensor.

The Travelstar 5K160 offers industry-leading power consumption and heat-emission characteristics, which contribute to the host system's overall battery consumption and life expectancy. In addition, the shock resistance of the 5K160 shows leadership capabilities in boundary testing. The drive also exhibits leadership performance in application benchmark testing. The Travelstar 5K160 offers 80 GB per disk platter on one- and two-disk products for an upper capacity of 160 GB.

The Travelstar 5K160 will be available in US retail locations this summer at an MSRP of $269 USD for the 160-GB product. A Travelstar 5K160 Notebook Upgrade Kit will also be available at $299 USD.

Source: press release

See also:

Hitachi Ultrastar 10K300 SCSI and Fibre Channel Drives

Hitachi Ships Ultrastar 15K147 Hard Drive

Hitachi And HP Offer 300GB Hard Drives





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