Hitachi announces immediate availability of their new laptop hard drive, named 7k200.
It will be available in various capacities up to 200 GB and, as its name implies, will be spinning at 7200 rpm. Using the S-ATA interface, it is announced with an average latency of 4,2 ms (a figure that seems a bit optimistic for a disk of that size).
According to the manufacturer, it uses a similar amount of energy as the 5400 rpm models, and generates the same leve
