Eurocom Adds Hitachi 2.5-Inch 1TB 6Gb SATA HDD

The 1TB, 2.5 inch HDD is a SATA III HDD, and Eurocom Corp. offers it in a small form factor netbook.

Adding the storage technology of the Hitachi TravelStar 5K1000 to the Eurocom Monster allows to meet user’s demand for large storage capacity and performance.

"The Eurocom Monster is like we stuffed a high performance notebook into a netbook form factor, it always had the performance and now it can be customized with a massive amount of high capacity 1TB, high speed 6 Gb/s SATA storage, in other words, the Monster lives inside of this beast," said Mark Bialic, Eurocom president.

"The Monster 1.0 features an amazing form factor, great built quality, superb keyboard, reasonable price tag, and .. yeah, Monster like performance, which you really don’t expect to see in such small laptop," explains Nadav Appel, Eurocom customer.

The Monster is a system for students because of its battery life of up to 410 minutes, coupled with performance. The small size allows students to fit into nearly any school bag, at just under 4 lbs and 1.5 inches thick. It comes with a list of connectivity ports to allow students to connect it to nearly any external device. Now with up to 1TB of SATA III storage, it has the capacity and data transfer speeds students need.

Now with the Eurocom Education Program, students can get up to 10% of their Monster plus a free 750GB Hybrid Storage Drive and 8 GB DDR3-1600 memory with the Refer a Friend Promotion.

Some of the features also apply to professionals. The portable design allows users to have the power held within the Monster wherever they go, with the battery life to ensure the Monster doesn’t need to be tethered to a power outlet.

The Monster supports multiple OSs including Linux, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Microsoft Server 2008.  

"In my case I have chosen the impressive Intel Core i7 3820QM Processor with 4 cores, 8 threads and 8 MB of L3 Cache with 16 GB DDR3-1600 RAM and a 240 GB Intel 520 Series SSD. I can run plenty of VMs at the same time: w2k3 r2 sp2, w2k8 r2, CentOS 6 with no problem. The performance with MatLab and others engineering tools is amazing. Never seen that in a 11.6 inch portable," said Koldo Valle Garcia, Computer Science and Communications Services, Elecnor.

Like all Eurocom notebooks, the Monster is a customizable, configurable and upgradeable high performance system. During the purchase process customers can configure it with processors ranging from Intel Core i5-3210M to Core i7-3920XM Processor Extreme Edition. Memory can be configured from 4GB of DDR3-1600 to 16GB DDR3-1600. Eurocom offers storage options including  SSDs from Crucial RealSSD C400, Intel SSD 520 series, Hitachi Travestar 5K1000 HDDs, Western Digital and hybrid drives from Seagate. Wireless technology, keyboards, displays, warranties and TV tuner cards can be customized, along with OSs.

At the core of the Monster 1.0, users have an NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 2GB of video memory, 384 cores, with the graphics clock running at 850 MHz this new graphics powerhouse is an ultimate mobile gaming and professional machine, all in a portable form factor. With Optimus support, the Monster can run for up to 410 minutes on one charge.

Monster 1.0 Benchmarks
Eurocom engineers have been testing and benchmarking the Eurocom Monster 1.0 with various configurations and testing suites with unbelievable results. Eurocom does benchmark testing to ensure all of the published configurations function optimally and customers get the high performance hardware they expect.

Below a selection of testing that has been done:

• 3DMark Vantage: P9638
• 3DMark11: P2462
• Unigine Heaven 2.1 fps: 30.3
• Unigine Heaven 2.1 score: 763

TravelStar 5K1000 Specs:

• Capacity: 1TB
• Interface: SATA III (6Gb/s)
• Rotation Speed: 5400 rpm
• Load/Unload Cycles: 600,000
• Media Transfer rate: 998Mbits/sec. max
• Interface Transfer Rate: 600MB/sec, max
• Physical Dimensions: 9.5x100x70mm; 102 g

Eurocom Monster 1.0 Specs:
11.6-inch (29.46cm); HD 1366-by-768 pixels; Glossy (Glare) or Matte (Non-Glare)Surface; Backlight LED Display

• VGA Technology: on-board NVIDIA GT 650M with 2GB of DDR3 VRAM; Optimus
• Chipset: Intel Mobile HM76 Express
• Processor: supports both Intel Sandy Bridge (32nm) and Ivy Bridge (22nm) Mobile Processors
• Memory: up to 16GB DDR3-1600 ; two SODIMM sockets; Dual Channel
• Storage: up to 1TB of storage space; SATA (III) 6 Gb/s; one physical hard drive
• Ports: USB 2.0; 2x USB 3.0; HDMI 1.4a out; VGA; Headphone; Mic; RJ45/LAN
• Communication: 1GbE LAN; WLAN; Bluetooth
• Weight: 1.8kg / 3.96lbs (with battery)
• Dimensions: WxDxH 287x207x12.7-37.1mm; 11.48×8.28×0.51-1.48-inch
• Battery Life: up to 410 minutes; 62.16WH battery