New Trio of Enterprise-class HDDs Built for Performance, Reliability and Capacity
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) announced a trio of new products: the 15K RPM Ultrastar® 15K300, 7200 RPM Ultrastar A7K1000, and the company’s first small form factor (SFF) enterprise hard drive, the 10K RPM Ultrastar C10K147.
The Ultrastar C10K147 is the company’s first small form factor enterprise hard drive. The Ultrastar C10K147 was developed specifically for the high performance, low power requirements of servers.
Hitachi’s new Ultrastar hard drives are built upon technology proven for reliability, leveraging the system architecture and electronics of their predecessors. The 15K300 is the next generation of the popular 15K147, which has been qualified at major enterprise storage OEMs. The Ultrastar A7K1000 represents the next generation of the Deskstar E7K500, which has become the most popular hard drive for Enterprise SATA applications, with demonstrated reliability in the field. The Ultrastar A7K1000 is set to continue the reliability standard with a targeted 1.2 million hours mean time between failure1 (MTBF).
Ultrastar 15K300 – Built for mission-critical enterprise computing environments:
- 3.5-inch, 15,000 RPM, up to 300GB
- 16 MB data buffer
- Ultra320 SCSI, 3Gb/s SAS and 4Gb/s FCAL interfaces
- Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS)
- Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC)
- Adaptive format
- End-to-end data protection
Ultrastar C10K147 – Optimized for the power, performance requirements of servers:
- SFF 2.5-inch 10,000 RPM, up to 147GB
- 16 MB data buffer
- 3Gb/s SAS interface
- Thermal Fly-height Control
- Adaptive format
- End-to-end data protection
Ultrastar A7K1000 – High capacity, low-cost per gigabyte for lower duty cycle enterprise environments:
- 3.5-inch, 7,200 RPM, up to 1TB
- 3.0Gb/s SATA interface
- 32 MB data buffer
- Targeted 1.2 million hours MTBF
- Improved Rotational Vibration (RV) functionality
- Self Protection Throttling (SPT) technology
- Built on perpendicular magnetic recording technology
The Ultrastar 15K300 is available now with production quantities available in the first week of May 2007.
The Ultrastar C10K147 and Ultrastar A7K1000 will be delivered in the second quarter of 2007.
The complete press release with more detailed technical specifications can be found here.
