Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, hitting hard in the days leading up to CES, announcied a hard drive for notebooks and other mobile devices that offers Godzilla-sized storage ” a half-terabyte, or 500GB — capable of holding 178 movies, 500 hours of digital video, 250 games or 125,000 four-minute songs.

The Travelstar 5K500, the 2.5-inch mobile hard drive sets a new benchmark for capacity and, according to Hitachi, will usher in a new era of slim desktops, full-featured notebooks, gaming consoles and other advanced applications for mobile consumers.

Offered in both 400GB and 500GB models, Travelstar 5K500 is the fourth-generation Hitachi mobile drive to use perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The massive drives, which hit the market in February, will be available with a 3.0 GBps Serial ATA (SATA) interface for enhanced system performance.

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