Travelstar is a high capacity compact HDD with a form factor of 2.5 in. and comes with storage capacity ranging from 80 GB to 320 GB. Spindle-speed of this HDD is 5400 rpm with SATA 3 GB/s interface. It comes with Enhanced Availability for apps needing round-the-clock access and consumes less power. One optional interesting feature of this HDD is Bulk Data Encryption with SATA 1.5 GB/s interface for hard-drive level data security. In this technique data is encrypted using a key when it is written to the disk. For enhancing reliability Travelstar comes with altitude sensing Thermal Fly-High control and True Track technology. It is ideal for notebooks and small form factor storage devices.

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We carried out different tests to check the performance of this HDD with an Intel quad core machine with 2 GB RAM. On Business Disk Winmark. the disk gave a throughput of 9 MB/s that is about 3 MB/s more than WD Scorpio Notebook HDD. In high-end Disk Winmark it gave a throughput of 36 MB/s that was about 4 MB/s more than WD Scorpio. It took 18 ms to access data, which is almost equal to that attained by WD Scorpio.