Development of Industry’s first 7200 RPM 2TB Enterprise level hard drives by HITACHI
With growing needs for such application as data warehousing, disk-to-disk backup, cloud computing as well as huge scale-out storage implementation has contributed in importance of some critical attributes such as storage density, GB-per-watt and cost-per-GB. At the same time enterprises are faced with the growing volume of digital content, maximum storage rack-density and floor tile space and they need to reduce the overall energy consumption, forcing the data centers to push the boundaries to make storage more efficient through implementation of such technology as virtualization, thin provisioning and de-duplication. To respond to these needs, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies made an announcement on development of and shipping of industry’s first enterprise class 7200 RPM 2TB Hard Drives. The new Ultrastar A7K2000 has been designed, manufactured and tested in ensuring enterprise-class mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) of 1.2 million hours for demanding 24×7 nearline applications making it an ideal solution for such application as data warehousing, disk-to-disk backup, cloud computing and massive scale-out storage implementations. Read more
