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With notebooks now outselling their desktop counterparts, the demand for bigger and faster small form factor hard drives is also increasing.
Although this new Hitachi 7K100 isn't a perpendicular drive (Seagate was the first to market a notebook drive using perpendicular technology - you'll find performance results for the Momentus 5400.3 on Reportlabs, it's still a blazingly fast 2.5in drive.
Available in capacities from 60GB up to 100GB in both ATA and Serial-ATA 1.5Gbits/sec interfaces, the new Travelstar series features 7,200rpm spin speeds, an 8MB cache and a seek time of 10ms.
The 100GB capacity of the 7K100 model reviewed here is achieved by using two platters with a density of 81Gbits/sq in.
For those who want to upgrade the slow, low-capacity drive in their notebook, the new Travelstar range from Hitachi would be a good choice. It is, however, one of the more expensive notebook drives.
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