Modern HDDs seem to get larger and speedier with every new generation that makes its way onto the market, and things will go even better on the future, one of the first signs of things to come being provided by Hitachi, who's just started shipping their new 2.5-inch, 600GB, 10K RPM, 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Enterprise hard drive, the Jitachi Ultrastar C10K600.
The Ultrastar C10K600 drive family is offered in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB versions, providing capacity parity with 3.5-inch drives, since, at 2.5-inches, these small form factor drives occupy 70 percent less physical space and consume 65 percent less power than Hitachi's 3.5-inch enterprise hard drives.
The Ultrastar C10K600 drive sets a new performance standard for 10K RPM 2.5-inch hard drives with up to 18 percent faster sequential and up to 15 percent better random performance than competitive products.
The drives ship with a dual-port 6Gb/s SAS interface, providing fast data throughput, configuration flexibility and investment protection, while the Ultrastar C10K600 is also the only drive in its class to use a 64MB cache, which is designed to efficiently manage data and optimize the drive's read/write response time.
The new Ultrastar drives also feature average seek times as low as 3.7 milliseconds and the fast rotational speeds reduce average latency time to 3.0 milliseconds, enabling customers to access data more quickly and efficiently.
The new Ultrastar C10K600 drive family offers optional Bulk Data Encryption for hard-drive-level data security, these self-encrypting models being designed to the Trusted Computing Group's Enterprise A Security Subsystem Class encryption specification and allowing customers to reduce costs associated with drive retirement and extend drive life by enabling swift and secure repurposing of drives.
The drive includes a host of industrial-strength technologies designed to maximize reliability in mission-critical environments, such as Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motors that deliver a low acoustic rating and improved data integrity, while Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) technology anticipates and counteracts disturbances that can occur in multi-drive configurations.
In addition, the Ultrastar C10K600 drive uses Hitachi-patented head load/unload technology to minimize integration induced drive damage.
The Ultrastar C10K600 is now shipping to customers worldwide, and has already been qualified by select OEMs, which means that we should see it arrive in finite products quite soon.
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