Hitachi has announced Deskstar® T7K500, Deskstar 7K160 and CinemaStar™ hard disk drives which has up to a half terabyte (TB) of storage capacity. The 3.5-inch hard drives feature 7,200 RPM spin speeds and 3.0Gb/s Serial-ATA (SATA) interfaces to deliver maximum performance. The CinemaStar is designed for streaming consumer electronics applications with SMART Command Transport and adaptive error recovery for optimized video streaming and picture quality, and silent-seek acoustics for “bedroom quiet” operation. The Deskstar products are ideal for consumer PCs and gaming systems where speed and capacity are paramount. These drives feature Native Command Queuing (NCQ), enabling fast data transfer rates and up to 16 MB cache on SATA models.

“Hitachi has consistently provided hard drives with superior quality and reliability. With these new drives, which have feature-sets that are optimized for specific applications, we will be able to further target Hitachi products based on specific customer needs,” said Jerry Kagele, executive vice president at Bell Microproducts. “Thanks to Hitachi, we are able to provide our customers with a broad range of hard drive products to address every application need.”

These drives are available with immediate effect. For more infirmation you can visit the company's website.

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