Hitachi has developed a 500GB hard-disk drive for laptop computers, due to be announced Thursday. The Travelstar 5K500, which is the highest capacity drive yet developed for portable PCs, is due to ...

Shifting its focus from roominess to ruggedness, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Tuesday plans to announce a 40GB drive for notebook computers meant to withstand more wear and tear. Hitachi is ...

Biometric laptops are no big thing. We’ve heard of thumbprint recognition and even iris scans, but Hitachi has taken things one step further with its so-called “vein recognition.” The FLORA Se210 ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Now that the capacities of small form-factor drives have hit hundreds of gigabytes, just about any corporate database can easily fit on a laptop. That affordable capacity gives users the opportunity ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced it’s shipping the fifth generation of its 7200-rpm, 2.5-inch laptop hard disk drive that, at 500GB, has more than twice the capacity of its ...

The battery packs cited in the recall are installed in Hitachi's Flora 210W and Flora Se210 laptops. Hitachi will pay for the recall, according to press reports. No problems have been reported with ...

My Z33Ae is < 1.5 years old (purchased in February 2006). It uses a PATA hard drive, as many laptops have until within the last YEAR.<BR><BR>Both Seagate and Hitachi have recently released new 7200RPM ...