Hitachi GST today announced the first 3TB enterprise-class hard disk drive, the Ultrastar 7K3000, a 7,200rpm drive that comes with either 6Gbit/sec. serial SCSI (SAS) and serial ATA (SATA) interfaces. Like its predecessor — the 3.5-in A7K2000 — the new drive has five platters, but it increases the areal density on those disks by 50%, from 400GB per platter to 600GB. More important for enterprise-class users, the Ultrastar 7K3000 has a guaranteed meantime between failure of 2 million hours, and the SAS version is dual ported for resiliency.
Archive for January, 2011
Intel has released a solid-state drive that is one-eighth the size of its current 2.5-in. consumer model but can still hold up to 80GB of data. Intel’s new SSD 310 Series is one-eighth the size of a 2.5-in. hard drive. Intel’s new 310 Series drive offers performance on data reads that’s similar to that of its X25-M SSD for consumers, but in a form factor better suited for dual-drive notebooks and tablets, the company said. When paired with a high-capacity hard disk drive in a dual-drive system, the Intel SSD 310 can improve overall PC system performance by as much [ Read More ]
