Fujitsu intros new line of non-stop hard drives

While Western Digital and others are busy making power-saving hard drives with various start and stop measures these days, Fujitsu seems to going in a different direction entirely, today announcing a new line of drives designed for 24-hour continuous operation. Intended primarly for use in ATMs, POS systems, medical equipment, and other industrial applications the new MHY2 BS series of 2.5-inch drives boasts capacities up to 200GB, along with a 5,400 rpm disk speed and a SATA interface. While those won't be available until the end of August, Fujitsu has two other non-stop drive series available now, including the 7,200 rpm MHW2 BK Series, and the MHW2 AC Series, which is able to withstand extremely high and low temperatures.

[Via Akihabara News]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 12:11PM]

5400 RPM...yes, clearly intended for "POS systems"

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 12:13PM]

SCSI hardrives like? hmm

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 12:12PM]

There's something about the abbreviation "POS" that just gets me.

[stridermt2k Posted Jul 24th 2007 12:23PM]

Since when do all applications need the fastest/best hardware?

Save the specsmanship for your next LAN party.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 12:53PM]

They are designed for the given purposes due to the continuous runtime, not the speed. A 250gb 5400rpm drive will be faster than most current 7200rpm drives being shipping in most notebooks (due to the lower capacities)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 1:50PM]

Eh? How can a 7200 rpm drive be faster than a 5400 drive?

Screw capacity, I need faster boot-ups bay-bee!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 1:45PM]

I have my ThinkPad laptop churning torrents day and night for over two years... should I be worrying about catastrophic disk failure?

What's so special about this HDD that the other drives can't do?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 1:51PM]

Oops, I mean, how can a 5400 rpm drive be faster than a 7200 rpm one. My bad!

[compubasic Posted Jul 24th 2007 4:02PM]

I'm probablly completely wrong, but I think that lower RPM drives have slower read times, but find the files on the drive faster, where as higher RPM drives have fast read times, but find the files on the drive more slowly -- Or it could be the other way around -- OR, I could be completely wrong all together, but I think I'm on to something.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 4:49PM]

This is actually a good thing since Googles extensive testing of HDD's shows continuous operation tends to make disks last longer than powering them down when idle.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2007 6:29PM]

hang on, my drive runs 24hours a day 365, as did my drives in 1995, am i missing something?