HGST ships over 100 Million Mobile Hard Drives

HGST has announced that it has shipped more than 100 million Travelstar Z-series, 7.0-millimeter (mm), 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDD). As the 7.0 mm HDD market maker, HGST has also launched the new 2.5-inch, 1TB, Travelstar Z5K1000 drive  the industry’s fastest 7.0mm 5,400 RPM HDD with best-in-class shock robustness for thin, ultra-portable laptops, Ultrabooks, external storage and ultra-compact CE devices.
 
Embraced by all of the global PC OEMs, HGST’s 7.0mm Z-series HDD family features common connectors and mounting points for easy integration into existing systems to enable greater design flexibility for new thinner, lighter and more robust consumer electronics devices.
 
The 7.0mm 2.5-inch mobile market continues to be a strategic space for HGST as evidenced by our record 100M shipments. With the addition of our new 1TB Travelstar Z5K1000, HGST continues to offer the market’s broadest 5,400 and 7,200 RPM 7.0 mm 2.5-inch hard drive portfolio to meet the needs of a diverse mobile computing and storage segment, said Brendan Collins, Vice-President  Product Marketing, HGST.
 
The new Travelstar Z5K1000 family features 1.6 watts (W) read/write power and 0.5W low-power idle.  It also offers the industry’s highest operating shock at 400G/2ms and non-operating shock at 1000G/1ms to protect against bumps and rough handling in mobile environments.
 
Travelstar Z5K1000 is the seventh-generation self-encrypting drive (SED) to feature HGST’s Bulk Data Encryption. It also speeds and simplifies drive re-purposing.
 
The Travelstar Z5K1000 family comes in 1TB and 750GB capacities. HGST is currently qualifying its Travelstar Z5K1000 with select OEMs.