Hitachi has developed a 500GB hard-disk drive for laptop computers, due to be announced Thursday. The Travelstar 5K500, which is the highest capacity drive yet developed for portable PCs, is due to ...

Notebook computers can be as powerful as desktops these days, especially as hard-disk makers like Hitachi Ltd. grab industry bragging rights by unveiling a 500-gigabyte drive for laptops. The 500 GB ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced it’s shipping the fifth generation of its 7200-rpm, 2.5-inch laptop hard disk drive that, at 500GB, has more than twice the capacity of its ...

Shifting its focus from roominess to ruggedness, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Tuesday plans to announce a 40GB drive for notebook computers meant to withstand more wear and tear. Hitachi is ...

Fancy half a terabyte of storage in your laptop? You can never have too much storage, particularly when on the move with your laptop. Now, though, thanks to Hitachi's Travelstar 5K500 notebook drive, ...

Biometric laptops are no big thing. We’ve heard of thumbprint recognition and even iris scans, but Hitachi has taken things one step further with its so-called “vein recognition.” The FLORA Se210 ...

Oh, how long laptop drives have awaited to reach that magical 500GB / 1TB mark for single and dual drive machines, respectively. Well, today, thanks to Hitachi, road warriors everywhere can find sweet ...

CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He now manages CNET San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D printers ...

The battery packs cited in the recall are installed in Hitachi's Flora 210W and Flora Se210 laptops. Hitachi will pay for the recall, according to press reports. No problems have been reported with ...

It's all here: 2.5-inch, 9.5-mm thick form factor; 3.0Gbps SATA interface; 250GB per platter for a 500GB total capacity; 5,400 RPM spin; and hardware-based data encryption using a 128-bit key (we ...

Now that the capacities of small form-factor drives have hit hundreds of gigabytes, just about any corporate database can easily fit on a laptop. That affordable capacity gives users the opportunity ...