The press release is here. Verbatim Corp. has launched a new line of its 2.5-inch Portable SmartDisk Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in India, which includes the first 500 GB 2.5-inch portable hard drive. There are 3 x 166 GB platters  spinning at 5400 RPM and with 8 MB cache.

Being in the US market, it is interesting to see the pace of the Indian data market and product introductions.