News Hitachi intros 250GB desktop Serial ATA drive

From the Inquirer:

THE DIVISION OF HITACHI that took over IBM's hard drive division said it has released a 250GB Serial ATA unit today.
The 3.5-inch Deskstar 7K250 uses 80GB+ platters combined to create 250GB, that's a quarter of a terabyte, of storage.

The 7200 rev per minute hard drive is aimed at desktop PCs but is also targeted at "near line" storage, backup, games and other apps.

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