Date: 21/06/2010

New Z-series family of disk drives from Hitachi offers capacities of up to 320GB

Hitachi has introduced the Z-series family of Travelstar and CinemaStar drives. It is a family of ultra slim and light 7mm z-height drives. It consists of a slim 7mm drive tuned precisely for A/V streaming. It offers capacities of up to 320GB. Hitachi says that they are leading the shift from 9.5mm 2.5-inch drives to 7mm 2.5-inch drives across a broad range of market segments.

Some of the key features of the Z-series are:

1) Hitachi has build a foundation for future generations of one-disk 2.5-inch drives with its new Z-series family of Travelstar and CinemaStar drives.
2) The Travelstar Z7K320 offers 7200 RPM, 7mm 2.5-inch drive for high-performance compact systems and devices.
3) The CinemaStar Z5K320 drive offers a 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)
4) It provides 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