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Hitachi unveils new Ultrastar enterprise-ready HDDs

Written by IT News on 3:26 AM

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, one of the world's largest suppliers of high-performance hard drives, today announced the extension of its range of Ultrastar drives for applications, Enterprise Storage announced. The company has only two new 15,000 RPM Ultrastar drives for Tier 0 / 1, business-critical enterprise storage applications, including C15K147, a 2.5-inch hard drive for the business market and the new Ultra Start 15K600, intended to deliver an impressive 600 GB of storage space and a choice of 6 Gb / s SAS and 4Gb / s Fiber Channel settled Loop (FCAL) interfaces.

"Data is the lifeblood of the business. It is continuously stored and served at higher speeds and an ever-growing number of customers than ever before," said Brendan Collins, Vice President of Marketing, Hitachi GST. "Both of our new company UltraStar 15K RPM drives offer our customers the ability to build dense storage systems for their clients with better performance and lower cost of funds to add more racks or data center floor space. Our proven design and UltraStar entire portfolio of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives business, our customers continue to benefit from a lower total cost of ownership (TCO), enables us to deliver data center. "

According to Hitachi, the new 15K147 2.5-inch hard drive is designed for more than 70 percent efficiency compared to standard 3.5-inch hard drives. These new models are available in capacities of 73GB and 147GB, even with a 64 MB cache buffer, it boasts a 15,000 RPM speeds and is equipped with Hitachi's own Advanced Power Management technology.

Besides that, Hitachi units designed to meet the Trusted Computing Group Enterprise Security Subsystem Class A specification, the protection of data from the user. According to Hitachi, Ultra Start C15K147 and 15K600 shipping already in the channel and are accompanied by a period of five year warranty.

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Samsung announces new 500GB per platter Spinpoint F3 HDDs

Written by IT News on 3:44 AM

Samsung has recently announced the launch of a new arrangement of Spin Point F3 hard drives with 500GB Plat professions. The new storage solution is designed for work environments where high-density disks are needed for high-end computing applications. The company's new F3 hard drives allow users with a flatter speed 7200RPM and a high capacity storage solution with 1 TB.

"Our customers need not only increased capacity but also high performance for their server and desktop storage systems while promoting a green environment, says Choel-Hee Lee, Vice President of Marketing, Storage Systems Division of Samsung Electronics." The huge capacity of each plate and high-performance features in the new Spin Point F3 make it an attractive solution to control the growth of high-density storage."

In Seoul, South Korea-based Company, the new HDD Spin Point F3 series is designed to use 500 GB per platter technology provides up to 1TB of storage in a single hard drive solution. This design feature may be Samsung's latest 3.5-inch hard drives to give users a safe environment for their data, which gives a 30 percent increase in performance compared to three platter 1TB solutions. In addition, the new discs are shown with SATA 3.0Gbps interface, 16MB/32MB buffer memory and 7200RPM rotational speed.

Like most modern hard drives, the new Spin Point F3 series is also the subject of a number of technologies, including Silent Seek and Noise Guard, which aims to ensure a calm environment for the end user. What is the price and availability, the new 1TB drives are scheduled to arrive in August, while the 500GB models are already all over the world. The price has not yet revealed.