Hitachi expands its Travelstar Z-series with the new Z7K500, the industry’s first 7,200 RPM, 7mm z-height, One-Disk, 500GB mobile hard drive. The new drive is also the industry’s first 2.5-inch with SATA III 6Gbps interface and a 32MB cache. The 500GB per platter, one-disk models are designed as a direct replacement for standard 9.5mm HDDs, for use in notebook PCs, external storage and gaming consoles as well as new slimmer device designs. Thanks to the SATA 6Bbps inteface, 7200RPM spinning speed and 32MB cache, the thin Z7K500 delivers up to 33 percent more performance in

Hitachi announced the new Travelstar Z5K500, the industry’s highest capacity, one-disk, 7 millimeter (mm) z-height hard disk drive with 500GB capacity. The 2.5-inch drive uses SATA 3Gb/s interface and has 8MB cache memory. It operates at 5400RPM and features generation Advanced Format drive, which increases the physical sector size on HDDs from 512 bytes to 4,096 (4K) bytes, thereby improving drive capacity and error correction capabilities. The 7mm Travelstar Z5K500 includes optional bulk data encryption (BDE) for hard drive level data security. It is available in 250GB,