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• Pioneer ultraviolet laser promises 500GB disks
  Monday 8 November 2004 – 04:43
  Japanese hardware maker Pioneer has developed a technique which will allow optical drives to store 500GB of data.
• WD adds mobile 120 GB, desktop 500 GB hard drive to portfolio
  Friday 27 January 2006 – 09:45
  Western Digital (WD) announced that it has expanded its mobile and desktop hard disk families. New in the catalog are a 120 GB 2.5" drive that is available with EIDE or SATA interface and spins its platters with 5400 rpm.
• Toshiba Unveils Half-Terabyte Energy-Efficient 2.5-inch HDD
  Thursday 20 November 2008 – 05:30
  Toshiba has announced a new series of 2.5-inch hard disk drives that offer capacities up to 500 GB, increased durability, reduced noise and a lower power consumption
• Samsung first to ship 500 GB notebook HDD
  Thursday 6 March 2008 – 09:40
  $300 could buy you a 32 GB solid state disk drive for your notebook – or half a terabyte of traditional storage space. What will it be?
• Dell offers up to 500 GB storage capacity in mobile Alienware, XPS systems
  Wednesday 11 April 2007 – 03:08
  Dell has begun offering 250 GB 2.5" hard drives with perpendicular magnetic recording technology in two portable computers.

• Half a Terabyte On Your Notebook*
  Wednesday 9 July 2008 – 06:40
  The capacity gap between 2.5" notebook drives and 3.5" hard disk drives is closing. We look at the latest 500GB drives from Hitachi and Samsung, which unfortunately fail to impress.
• Hitachi's 500GB DeskStar Monster*
  Thursday 14 July 2005 – 07:00
  Hitachi has become the first hard drive vendor to offer 500 GB of capacity. But while coming out on top in the size superlative, the DeskStar 7K500's heat dissipation and other performance factors might involve some compromises.
• 500 GB External Storage Tested*
  Friday 17 August 2007 – 02:43 in Hardware
  The hard drive as we know it has changed. It is still a small box of iron casting with rotating platters inside, but it is no longer just the place where you install your operating system and some applications. The hard drive is shifting towards the cen
• Western Digital NetCenter Network Drive: Low price but low performance*
  Wednesday 20 September 2006 – 11:54
  Jim Buzbee found Western Digital's NetCenter NAS to be a good value if you don't mind slow performance and a limited feature set.