14 DAY TRIAL // Hitachi's been on quite a roll lately, and now, the company's back with yet another very interesting offering in the field of storage targeting enterprise customers, namely the new Ultrastar 7K3000 drive family, that's touted as being the first 7,200 RPM enterprise-class HDD to deliver 2.0 million hours mean time between failure (MTBF). According to Hitachi, their brand-new Ultrastar 7K3000 drive offers 50 percent more capacity in the same footprint and does so at a 32 percent reduction in watts/GB versus Hitachi’s prior generation Ultrastar A7K2000 drives, thus making them especially well-suited for data centers and always-on, mission-critical applications.
Furthermore, the Ultrastar 7K3000 family represents the first Hitachi 7,200 RPM drives in both 6Gb/s SATA and 6Gb/s SAS interfaces, for easier integration in a much wider array of computing environments.
Plus, the Ultrastar 7K3000 SATA and SAS models also offer bulk data encryption (BDE) options, the dual-port SAS model being in fact targeted at emerging 6Gb/s SAS enterprise infrastructures and thus designed to meet the industry standard TCG Enterprise_A encryption specification.
"From early-stage research to design and development to component selection and manufacturing, we have multi-layer processes in place to ensure that our customers receive the highest quality products throughout the entire life of the hard drive program," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at Hitachi GST.
“Raising our MTBF to 2.0 million hours on our new Ultrastar 7K3000 family reinforces this quality commitment. Our new Ultrastar drives will continue to play an important and growing role in data centers that require 24x7 availability for cloud storage, massive scale out (MSO) data farms, data warehousing, disk-to-disk backup, RAID arrays and more,” Mr. Collins concluded.
The new Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 family comes in 3TB and 2TB offerings, and is now shipping with a 6Gb/s SATA interface worldwide, while the Ultrastar 7K3000 6Gb/s SAS family will be available in mid-2011.