Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K500 drive claims the first desktop hard drive to reach 500GB and one of the first to use the speedy new SATA II interface, the company said in a statement.

Hitachi's 500GB drive will be available in two versions: a $500 drive featuring the older parallel ATA interface and an 8MB data buffer, and a $520 model with a 16MB buffer that uses the 3-gigabits-per-second Serial ATA II interface. The drives are scheduled to be shipped in the second quarter of this year. Hitachi estimates that the five-platter 500GB drives will be able to store up to 56 hours of HDTV depending on compression rates.

By: DocMemory
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