Hitachi 8-GB Slim Hard Drives
Hitachi announced 8-GB "Mikey" & 30/60-GB "Slim" Hard Drives, they sti mulate new MP3 and Mobile Phone designs. According to Hitachi, the new Mikey and Slim hard drives, are the new "bling" among tech-savvy consumers.
- 1inch "Mikey" has 8 GB of storage, and stores up to 4,000 songs.
- "Slim" has 30/60-GB of Storage, and can store up to 30,000 songs.
Microdrive 3K8 "Mikey" is now shipping in limited quantities, with volume shipment planned for October. Hitachi's ESP technology and support for the CE-ATA and ATA-on-MMC interfaces will be available starting in December.
The Travelstar C4K60 "Slim" will begin volume shipment of the 30-GB version at the end of this month. The 2-disk, 60-GB Slim model will ship in the first quarter of 2007.
Mikey -- Microdrive 3K8 Mikey, which is officially called the Hitachi Microdrive 3K8, will be available with 6 and 8 gigabytes(a) (GB) of storage capacity and, yet, is nearly 20-percent smaller and consumes 40 percent less power than its predecessor.
The 3K8 is also the first hard drive to offer the CE-ATA interface, which is designed to support the specific relationship between small-form-factor hard drives and the handheld consumer electronic devices in which they are embedded.
In addition, Hitachi is deploying drop-sensor technology on the new Microdrive, which protects against data loss in the event of a drop. Acting like a sixth sense, Hitachi's ESP or Extra Sensory Protection(TM) technology works by immediately parking the read-write head safely away from the surface of the disk when it detects a fall, preventing head/disk contact which may cause data loss.
ESP is activated during a drop of as little as four inches (10 cm) and effectively allows the operating-shock tolerance to mimic non-operating-shock tolerance, which in the 3K8 equates to 2000 Gs, the industry's highest shock rating for a one-inch hard drive.
ESP will be especially useful in emerging hard-drive-based smart phones, which may experience greater user handling and, potentially, a greater number of drops than other types of consumer devices (see Hitachi shock-related press release for details). Hitachi believes ESP technology should be as essential to hard-drive-based devices as airbags are to cars. HARD DRIVE IS THE NEW BLING!
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