Compare Hitachi Travelstar® 80GN 80 GB ATA-100 Hard Drive to Wolverine (3080) 80 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive

The Hitachi Travelstar 80GN is a 9.5mm high, 4200 rpm, 2.5-inch mobile hard disk drive. The Travelstar 80GN brings a 26th generation addition to the long line of Travelstar family drives.??The innovative hard drive design combines AFC Media, Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motor technology, Giant Magnetoresistive (GMR) heads, Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML) digital channel, head load/unload technology, Enhanced Adaptive Batter Life Extender (ABLE) 3.0, and an ATA/100 interface. With this design, the Travelstar 80GN provides exceptional quietness, storage capacity, performance, power management and quality required by today's demanding notebook systems.??The Travelstar 80GN breaks current areal density records by allowing up to 70Gbits/ per square inch to be written on each disk. This was achieved by adding another coating of "Pixie Dust" - or an additional ruthenium/magnetic layer to create a five-layer sandwich called laminated-"Pixie Dust". These additional layers bring ev... Less

Wolverine Data's powerful outside-the-box peripheral enables external data storage and convenient transportation and sharing of large, critical data files. Simply connect the Wolverine Data storage system to any PC USB port and instantly gain access to vast gigabytes of data. With hot-swap capability, you can Plug and Play without rebooting or opening your computer. Presentations, digital movies and photographs, music, games and back-up data on the Wolverine drive are at your fingertips in a flash. The Professional Series is designed to take advantage of USB 2.0 speed, with data transfer rates up to 40 times faster than USB 1.1 devices. Plus, Wolverine Data storage systems are backward compatible with PCs and peripherals equipped with USB 1.1 ports and can add value to your existing investment in technology. Less