Cyberstar
Infocom unveils
Mumbai;January 28,2008 : Cyberstar Infocom (P) Ltd, one of the emerging distributors
of IT peripherals, networking products and components in India, Singapore,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, today announced that it has launched
Hitachi’s half-terabyte (500GB)
Travelstar 5K500 in the country.
Setting a
new industry benchmark for capacity, the half-terabyte (500GB) Travelstar 5K500
is poised to usher in a new era of “slim” desktops, full-featured notebooks,
gaming consoles and other advanced applications for consumers on-the-go.
Travelstar 5K500 is among Hitachi’s most technically advanced and robust family
of drives which comes with an array of innovative features and offers all the
storage capacity of a desktop with the portability and convenience of a
notebook. The new drives are well-suited for use in “slim” desktops where users
are seeking high capacities in a space-saving, small form factor enclosure.
Travelstar
5K500, available in 400GB or 500GB model, uses a three-disk design to deliver
up to 500GB of capacity. The new drives are extremely energy-efficient, with a
power profile nearly identical to its two-disk predecessor, the Travelstar
5K250. It features a 1.9 watt read/write power draw and their 0.7 watt low
power idle means longer battery life for more “unplugged” notebook time. The
fourth-generation Hitachi mobile drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording
technology to deliver breakthrough capacity and reliability and can store up to
500 hours of digital video, 178 feature length movies, 250 games or 125,000
four-minute songs.
Travelstar
5K500 drives are available with a 3.0Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) interface for
enhanced system performance and feature Hitachi-patented Rotational Vibration
Safeguard (RVS) technology. RVS is designed for today’s full-featured notebooks
that commonly include premium speakers for enhancing the movie, music and gaming
experience. These speakers however, can inadvertently cause vibrations within
the system enclosure. To mitigate any adverse impact on system performance, the
Travelstar 5K500 uses RVS as an “early warning” system for the drive, enabling
it to sense a possible disturbance in advance and take the necessary steps to
stabilize the drive head and avoid any disruptions. Additionally, the
Travelstar 5K500 drives feature 400Gs of shock protection to further safeguard
user data from falls, bumps and rough handling. The Travelstar 5K500 drives
also feature optional Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) for hard drive level data
security. Previously, data on a hard drive could be protected either through
software-based encryption or a system-level password. However, hard-drive level
encryption provides improved performance and a higher level of security than
any of the previously available options. BDE models ship exclusively with a 1.5Gb/s SATA interface.
“Growing volumes of songs, movies, personal videos,
pictures and games stored on our PCs highlights a ready market for higher
capacity HDDs in India,” said Raj Rathi, Founder
& CEO of Cyberstar Infocom (P) Ltd., “Hitachi’s TravelStar
5K500, the world’s highest capacity 2.5-inch mobile hard drive, crams much more
data per square inch and is a must for “slim” desktops, where users are seeking
high-capacities in a space-saving, small form factor enclosure ,” added Raj
Rathi.
Availability : The Travelstar 5K500 will be available through
Cyberstar Infocom from February onwards.
For further information,
please contact: +91 80 41266808 / hitachihdd@cyberstarindia.com.
About
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in
About
Cyberstar (www.cyberstarindia.com):
Founded in
1999, Cyberstar Infocom (P) Ltd. is today one of the emerging distributors of
IT Peripherals, Networking & Components, in India, Singapore, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, Pakistan & Nepal. Backed by a highly professional and motivated
team, Cyberstar has now expanded its operation to include 36 offices in order
to reach out to its valued channel partners across the country. Cyberstar
prides itself in providing its customers with best quality products, technical
support, marketing and training programs, and post-sales service. For its
vendors, Cyberstar acts as a value added sales force, leveraging its
well-qualified team, technical capabilities, logistic services and customer
relationships to distribute their products in the most cost effective manner.
Media
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Cyberstar
Infocom (P) Ltd.
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98800 20213
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