14 DAY TRIAL // HGST, Western Digital's latest acquisition (and previously named Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) has launched an enterprise hard disk drive that claims to be the first to reach a total capacity of 4 TB.
The new drive is called Ultrastar 7K4000 and, as the name implies, boasts a platter speed of 7,200 RPM (rotations per minute).
The data buffer is of 64 MB, while the transfer speeds can go as high as 171 MB/s (SATA 6.0 Gbps interface), seek time is 8.0ms (typical, read) and the sector size is of 512e (Advanced Format).
"We are humbled by the fact that our enterprise customers continue to appreciate and value our broad portfolio of enterprise HDDs and SDDs, which gives them multiple choices to satisfy a wide range of tiered storage requirements in the enterprise," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing, HGST.
"With our new Advanced Format Ultrastar 7K4000 drives, we are providing enormous capacity earlier than otherwise possible for environments optimized for this technology, while delivering yet another offering that takes advantage of the Ultrastar family's long-standing tradition of delivering high-reliability and low power for high-density cloud and big data applications."
HGST gave the item a Dual Stage Actuator (DSA) and Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS), so that it may work well in multi-drive setups.
Not only that, but even a bulk data encryption (BDE) option exists, so that enterprise clients needn't worry about the safety of their data either.
"Our cost-effective, high-density, and scalable enterprise-class storage solutions are designed for a broad range of market applications including cloud, digital video storage, and backup, and HGST's high-capacity 7,200 RPM enterprise-class hard drives play a crucial role in our value proposition," said Gary Watson, CTO, Nexsan.
"We all know that the need for more storage is expanding in multiple directions and dimensions, and Hitachi's highly reliable, high-capacity HDDs allow us to deliver solutions where large capacities, density, and power efficiency are highly valued. We have been using Hitachi Ultrastar drives for years and look forward to qualifying their new 4 TB enterprise-class drives."
HGST is currently shipping samples of the Ultrastar 7K4000 to customers. 2 TB and 3 TB versions are available as well.