14 DAY TRIAL // Having gathered experience in the years spent in the computer business, I've come to the conclusion that more and more often, past ideas seem to apply to present and future ideologies. As the story goes, once upon a time, there was this student who was failing math, and for that he wasn't thought of being intelligent. Because of one single argument, that person, at one point in his life said that all the things are relative, and his affirmation became famous worldwide. Now, such is the case with all of the things in the computer industry, everything is relative based on the point from which you are looking at things.
Say for instance we take a look at a floppy disk drive, for many it's an obsolete item, which shouldn't be a part of a computer's configuration anymore. But that same item was the desired storage media for an operating system. That can also be said about knowledge regarding the computer industry; what was news today, will be history tomorrow, and in order to stay ahead of your game you must be informed. Now when it comes to relativity and a certain hardware component, such as the hard drive, its importance is measured by how much the people that are going to use it, need it.
You often don't need a component, but you are told you need it, so you buy it. Such is the case with Hitachi, they are launching three new hard drives: the 15K RPM Ultrastart 15K300, 10K RPM Ultrastart C10K147 and the 7200 RPM Ultrastar A7K1000. Now whether or not you need one of these drives is not as important as what you are told you need, through, you know, the usual commercials and media frenzy.
To add a little bit to that madness, I'm going to tell you about the features of one of the most important drives of the series. The Ultrastar C410K147 is the company's first small form factor enterprise hard drive, boasting low power requirements and high performance for 24/7 usage. The drive's specifications are: SFF 2.5-inch 10,000 RPM, up to 147GB; 16 MB data buffer; 3Gb/s SAS interface; Thermal Fly-height Control.
"As the first to market with a full portfolio of small form factor SAS-based servers and storage, HP offers customers innovations that maximize the performance, reliability, power savings and other efficiency advantages of their IT investments," said Ron Noblett, vice president, Shared Technology, Industry Standard Servers and BladeSystem Division, HP. "With Hitachi as a valued technology provider and its Ultrastar C10K147, we will continue to help drive the industry's transition into the small form factor market."