Hitachi launches new CinemaStar drives for media PCs and set top ...

5-inch CinemaStar drives, we continue to give our customers the flexibility to select a variety of reliable and robust drives to meet their cost, performance, power or capacity requirements, while helping them to deliver smaller, more... 5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) for the growing traditional and small form factor audio/video (A/V) and consumer electronics (CE) HDD markets. Well, hopefully it's Hitachi's new CinemaStar hard drives. 5-inch hard disk drives into a growing number of CE applications," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing, HGST. 5-inch hard drives are satisfying the needs of both the traditional 3. 5-inch CE HDD family, featuring a one-disk design with 500GB, 320GB and 250GB capacities. 5-inch drive designed for high-performance A/V streaming. 5-inch form factor, meeting the needs of a growing number of CE OEMs who wish to offer video recording and playback features in a compact design, while still offering massive capacity and functionality as seen in much larger units in households... The new CinemaStar C5K1000 drive delivers a generous 1TB capacity in a 2. 5-inch CE market as well as the small form factor market, while allowing OEMs to design smaller, more compact A/V streaming devices. Both top out at 500GB, but the Z7K ekes out better performance by whipping its platters around at 7,200 RPM, while the Z5Ks save energy and noise by ratcheting back to 5,400 RPM. HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NYSE: WDC) today announced a new family of CinemaStar&trade. 5mm height, but this 5,400 RPM drive does reach the lofty storage size of 1TB. 5-inch drive bay, we'll just have to take the company at it's word (for now) on the silent bit. The 7mm CinemaStar Z7K500 drive can be a direct replacement for standard 9. The CinemaStar Z7K500 family comes with a 6Gb/s SATA interface and a 32MB cache buffer, and is available in 500GB, 320GB and 250GB capacities. All CinemaStar drives feature HGST's patented and innovative SmoothStream&trade. 5-inch CinemaStar C5K1000 family delivers read/write power as low as 1. "The ever increasing appetite for on-demand entertainment is driving the adoption of high-capacity 2. The drive family is available in 1TB, 750GB and 640GB capacities. Together, the SCT protocol and HGST SmoothStream technology minimizedisruptions in stream delivery by adapting buffer management behavior and error recovery timing to match the characteristics of typical streaming applications. technology, which enables the drives to perform efficiently and provide the best viewing experience possible. 9 idle bels, OEMs can easily design smaller, quieter and more power-efficient DVR solutions with enough streaming performance and capacity to store 185¹ hours of HD video or television shows. The CinemaStar Z7K500 family is the industry's first one-disk, 7mm, 7200 RPM, 2. For now the drives are available in limited quantities to OEMs, but hopefully that will change soon enough.


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