Industry’s first 2 Terabyte 7200 RPM Desktop Hard Disk Drive by Hitachi GST
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) made an announcement on development of industry’s first 2TB, 7200 RPM HDD targeted at heavy personal PC users. The newly developed Deskstar 7k2000 combines a mixture of high performance and capacity along with low power consumption and other ecological friendly features. Based on company’s power saving technology like Hitachi Voltage Efficiency Regulator (HiVERT™), the Deskstar 7K2000 and 7K1000.C features an outstanding power management and thermal emission to assist computer and storage based manufacturers to meet their energy compliance requirements. The new Deskstar 7K2000 offers 10 percent idle power savings over previous generations, and on a watt-per-GB basis, idle power has improved more than 120 percent. Read more
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
