Hitachi to Bring Low-power Consumption HDs to Consumer Electronic Market

Hitachi decided to follow Western Digital and to offer low-power consumption HDs.
The Cinemastar 5K500 is a 500 GB 3.5" HD consuming only 2.7 to 3.2 W, representing a power saving of 50%. The notebook version, named Cinemastar 5K320 should allow 10 to 20% power saving while offering 320 GB of storage space.
Such low power consumption HDs, with also lower performance levels, will be dedicated to standalone recorder or other HD-based multimedia centers for which heat release might be an issue.