Hitachi GST Launches Z-Series Family

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the industry's broadest family of ultra slim and light 7mm z-height drives. Whether customers need a slim 7mm drive that is the highest capacity, fastest or tuned precisely for A/V streaming, the new Hitachi Z-series family of Travelstar and CinemaStar drives delivers on the company's proven strengths of reliability, low-power consumption, exceptional shock resistance and quiet acoustics. With the entire family offered in capacities up to 320GB – the industry's highest 7mm drive capacity in a one-disk design – Hitachi is at the forefront, leading the shift from 9.5mm 2.5-inch drives to 7mm 2.5-inch drives across a broad range of market segments.
From laptops and handhelds to PVRs and blade servers, Hitachi's new 7mm Z-series family of Travelstar and CinemaStar drives are designed as a direct replacement for today's standard 2.5-inch, 9.5mm hard drives. All Hitachi Z-series drives feature common connectors and common mounting points for simple integration into existing systems, and enable greater design flexibility to differentiate and meet market demands for new, thinner, lighter and more robust devices. 

Hitachi 7mm Z-Series Family Highlights:

• Hitachi builds foundation for future generations of one-disk 2.5-inch drives with its new Z-series family of Travelstar and CinemaStar drives, enabling the most cost effective, space efficient storage solutions for next generation portable devices
• Entire Hitachi Z-series family of drives offered in capacities up to 320GB – the industry's highest capacity 7mm 2.5-inch drive in a one-disk design
• The Travelstar Z7K320 drive is the world's first 7200 RPM, 7mm 2.5-inch drive for high-performance compact systems and devices
• The CinemaStar Z5K320 drive leads the CE space as the first 7mm drive optimized for audio/video (A/V) devices such as personal video recorders (PVR) and set-top-boxes (STB)
• An optional self encrypting drive (SED) model for protecting data, and an enhanced-availability (EA) model for applications needing around-the-clock data access in lower-transaction environments (Travelstar Z-series only) round out the family