Hitachi Storage and Server Drives Beefed Up
Hitachi announced yesterday its plans to roll out 3 disk drives that can be deployed in a variety of environments. From T1 business critical environments to T2 and T3 environments, their new drives will find a place in today’s high-end customer server rooms.
Hitachi rolls out new storage, server drives
Hitachi’s latest small form factor drive has up to 1TB capacity
Deni Connor
April 24, 2007 (Network World) — Hitachi Global Storage Technologies yesterday announced three disk drives that will be deployed in enterprise storage systems and servers.
The Ultrastar 15K300 is a 15,000 rpm, 300 GB capacity drive designed for use in Tier 1, business-critical storage environments. It boasts Ultra320 SCSI, 3Gbit/sec. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4Gbit/sec. Fibre Channel interfaces.
The Ultrastar A7K1000 is a small form factor drive that runs at 7,200 rpm and has as much as 1TB of capacity. It has a 3Gbit/sec. Serial ATA interface and is intended for use in high-capacity but relatively inexpensive Tier 2 and 3 storage environments.
According to research firm IDC, disk drive shipments are expected to grow from 2.4 million in 2006 to 9.4 million this year as manufacturers transition to small form factor drives. These drives are denser than 3.5 in. drives, which means more of them can exist in a single server and use less power. The drives use the SAS interface, which gives them at least 3Gbit/sec. data transfer rates.
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