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.