Travelstar was a brand of 2.5-inch

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s (HDD) that was manufactured by

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. The brand was originally introduced by IBM in 1994 with the announcement of the Travelstar LP, a 2.5-inch 300MB 12.5 mm high HDD. IBM began shipping 2.5-inch HDDs in 1990 without this branding.1991 Disk/Trend Report- Rigid Disk Drives, Disk/Trend Inc., p. RSPEC-69 The brand was adopted and renamed to "HGST Travelstar" by

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after it acquired IBM's HDD business in 2003 and continued for a while after HGST was acquired by Western Digital, but the HGST prefix is now defunct. These drives were typically used with

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s and small form factor desktop computers. Models are manufactured with capacities up to 1 TB, with rotational speeds of 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM and in 7mm or 9.5mm z-heights. Newer Travelstar drives were manufactured with the Serial ATA interface. Older models were offered with the

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interface and some in a 1.8" form factor. The brand ended in 2012 with the last Travelstar series, the Travelstar Z7K500, which had drive capacities of 250, 320, and 500GB capacities and 32MB of cache with a speed of 7200 RPM.

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