Hitachi's Ultrastar triple-play: 15k RPM, SFF, and 1TB enterprise disks

by Thomas Ricker, posted Apr 24th 2007 at 8:17AM

If your enterprise disks aren't spinning at 15,000 rpm these days then you'd better step, son. Hitachi just announced their Ultrastar 15k300 (pictured left) which is, as you've probably already surmised, a 300GB disk chugging away at 15,000rpm. the 3.5-inch drive with 3.6-ms average seek time can be slung from Ultra320 SCSI, 3Gb/s SAS, or 4Gb/s FCAL interfaces in your mission-critical computing racks. Also announced is Hitachi's first small form factor (SFF) drive, the C10K147 (pictured center). This 2.5-inch, 147GB, 3Gb/s SAS disk is meant to assist data centers with cutting space and power consumption. The 15K300 is available now while the C10K147 will be delivered sometime later this quarter. Oh, in case you're wondering, that biggie drive on the right is the enterprise version (A7K1000) of their 1TB 7K1000 monster previously constrained to the desktop.

[Via Impress]

Filed under: Storage

Tags: 15,000rpm, 15000, 15000 rpm, 15000Rpm, 15k, 15k rpm, 15k300, 15kRpm, 1tb, 7k1000, a7k1000, c10k147, fcal, hitachi, sas, sff

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Darren Wilson @ Apr 24th 2007 9:30AM

FFS stick a SATA 3gb interface on them!!!! Would sell literally millions of them if they did that! If WD can do it with their Raptor range using Enterprise based storage solutions, then why don't Hitachi or others do so?

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Mike @ Apr 24th 2007 9:51AM

"This 2.5-inch, 147GB, 3Gb/s SAS disk"

Oh god I creamed my pants.

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FrankTheCrank @ Apr 24th 2007 10:12AM

Wow, 15K...crap that's fast.

I wonder if two of these paired up in RAID0 would beat Solid State Disk Drives.

I'm still rocking with my 36GB Raptor. I just love it. Fast as sh*t.

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JoshC09 @ Apr 24th 2007 11:46AM

Spell Check:

"If you're enterprise disks aren't spinning at 15,000 rpm..."

It should be:

If YOUR enterprise disks aren't spinning at 15,000 rpm...

Anyways yeah that is fast...i'd like to get a pair.

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Vooodu @ Apr 24th 2007 2:38PM

*hmmm... puts on hearing protection; starts game of CS:S*

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FXi @ Apr 24th 2007 10:00PM

Give me that 300 version in SATA and the 147 2.5" in a laptop and I'd be happy :)

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Old Eric @ Apr 25th 2007 3:19AM

only 1080p porno can take full advantage.

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The Walrus @ May 25th 2009 11:23PM

Why does it have to be porn?

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