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HITACHI GST RAISES THE
‘RELIABILITY’ BAR FOR
7,200 RPM, 3.5-INCH ENTERPRISE
DRIVES
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Hitachi GST ships the
world’s first 7,200 RPM, 3TB
enterprise-class hard disk drive (HDD).
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New Ultrastar™ 7K3000
drive family is the first 7,200 RPM
enterprise-class HDD to deliver 2.0
million hours mean time between failure¹
(MTBF), resulting in a 40 percent lower
annualized failure rate (AFR) than
enterprise drives rated at 1.2 million
hours MTBF.
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Hitachi GST’s first
family of 7,200 RPM, 3.5-inch
enterprise-class drives available in
both 6 gigabits per second (6Gb/s)
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial
ATA (SATA) interfaces. |
SAN JOSE, Calif.,
January 25, 2011–
Committed to the
growing market for cost-effective,
capacity-optimized drives, Hitachi Global
Storage Technologies (Hitachi
GST) today introduced its new
enterprise-class, 3.5-inch, 3TB Ultrastar 7K3000
drive family – the world’s first and only 7,200
RPM drive family rated at 2.0 million hours MTBF
and backed by a five-year limited warranty. The
new Ultrastar 7K3000 drive family represents the
fifth-generation of Hitachi’s five-platter
mechanical design, which has been stringently
designed, tested and field proven for quality
and reliability by global server and storage
OEMs, as well as the most well known Internet
giants worldwide. With millions of five-platter
Ultrastar drives shipped over the last three
years, Hitachi’s field reliability data shows an
unprecedented AFR below 0.40 percent, exceeding
customer and industry AFR quality specifications
for a 7,200 RPM drive. By increasing the MTBF
specification to 2.0 million hours, with an AFR
40 percent lower than drives rated 1.2 million
hours MTBF, Hitachi enables
data center managers to expect reduced failures,
improved up-time and lowered TCO when using a
large population of Ultrastar 7K3000 hard drives
over a period of time.
"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.”
“The need for
greater storage will continue to expand in
multiple directions and dimensions, and 3.5-inch
enterprise-class hard-disk drives (HDDs) will
play a crucial role in enabling that expansion,”
said John Monroe, a research vice president in
the Data Center Systems group at Gartner.
“Computers come and go, but data remains, and it
grows, in unpredictable ways. In the future, if
we do happen to see less local storage ‘in hand’
or ‘on the desk,’ this will simply mean that
even more storage will be required elsewhere, in
the network cloud. Highly reliable,
cost-effective, high-capacity HDDs have been
and, in concert and conjunction with solid-state
drives (SSDs) and higher-performance HDDs, will
continue to be key enablers of the widespread
proliferation of information, entertainment and
communication technologies.”
Keeping TCO to a
minimum
With the
industry’s highest MTBF on a 7,200 RPM HDD, and
stringent quality standards in place,
the Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 family delivers by
reducing system downtime, eliminating service
calls and keeping TCO to a minimum. With
explosive petabyte (PB) growth requirements, IT
managers can also leverage the new 3TB Ultrastar
7K3000 drive’s low power, high capacity and
lower cost per gigabyte to optimize floor space
and improve power-density requirements,
ultimately helping to take pressure off of
shrinking data centers and budgets.
Providing
the best watts per gigabyte (watt/GB), the
Ultrastar 7K3000 drive delivers 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. With its dense 3TB capacity, it is now
possible to achieve a colossal 1.8PB in the
footprint of a standard 19-inch enterprise
storage rack by stacking 10 4U, 60-bay
enclosures.
Hitachi’s
3.5-inch Ultrastar 7K3000 capacity density also
allows better utilization of floor space in
terms of GB per square foot (GB/sq ft.) and
watts/GB when compared to 2.5-inch,
capacity-optimized, 7,200 RPM enterprise hard
drives. Today these 2.5-inch drives cost roughly
twice the dollars per GB ($/GB) of 3TB, 3.5-inch
7,200 RPM drives with 66 percent less capacity.
To reach the same capacity as a 3TB, 3.5-inch
Ultrastar 7K3000 drive, customers would have to
purchase three 1TB 2.5-inch 7,200 RPM drives,
which will consume up to 170 percent higher
watts to power the drives and will occupy three
times the storage array slots.
The Ultrastar 7K3000 family represents the first
Hitachi 7,200 RPM drives in both 6Gb/s SATA and
6Gb/s SAS interfaces for easy integration into
legacy and new storage environments. All
Ultrastar 7K3000 drives are designed, built and
tested using Hitachi’s 10K RPM enterprise-class
technology and quality standards, making them
perfect for tiered storage architectures that
combine Hitachi solid-state drives (SSD), 10K
RPM 2.5-inch drives and 7,200 RPM 3.5-inch
drives. Storage system architects can deploy
implementations that use a combination of SSD
and 10K RPM 2.5-inch drives to provide the
highest levels of mission-critical system
performance and 7,200 RPM 3.5-inch drives as a
low cost-per-gigabyte solution for
capacity-optimized enterprise storage and other
24x7 lower input/output (I/O) applications. This
allows for a great deal of flexibility in
designing storage solutions that provide exactly
the level of performance the application
requires for the least cost and maximum return
on investment.
The Ultrastar
7K3000 SATA and SAS models are available with a
bulk data encryption (BDE) options. While the
Ultrastar 7K3000 SATA model uses proprietary
Hitachi encryption, the Ultrastar 7K3000
dual-port SAS model is targeted at emerging
6Gb/s SAS enterprise infrastructures and is
designed to meet the industry standard TCG
Enterprise_A encryption specification.
The new Hitachi
Ultrastar 7K3000 family comes in 3TB and 2TB
offerings, and is now shipping with a 6Gb/s SATA
interface worldwide. The Ultrastar 7K3000 6Gb/s
SAS family will be available in mid-2011.
About Hitachi Global Storage
Technologies
Hitachi Global
Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) develops
advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class
solid state drives, innovative external storage
solutions and services used to store, preserve
and manage the world’s most valued data. Founded
by the pioneers of hard drives, Hitachi GST
provides high-value storage for a broad range of
market segments, including Enterprise, Desktop,
Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and
Personal Storage. Hitachi GST was established in
2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San
Jose, California. For more information, please
visit the company’s website at
http://www.hitachigst.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd.,
(NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo,
Japan, is a leading global electronics company
with approximately 360,000 employees worldwide.
Fiscal 2009 (ended March 31, 2010) consolidated
revenues totaled 8,968 billion yen ($96.4
billion). Hitachi will focus more than ever on
the Social Innovation Business, which includes
information and telecommunication systems, power
systems, environmental, industrial and
transportation systems, and social and urban
systems, as well as the sophisticated materials
and key devices that support them. For more
information on Hitachi, please visit the
company's website at
http://www.hitachi.com.
¹
MTBF target is based on a sample, aggregate
population of a drive family and is estimated by
statistical measurements and acceleration
algorithms under nominal operating conditions.
MTBF ratings are not intended to predict an
individual drive’s reliability. MTBF does not
constitute a warranty.
One
GB is equal to one billion bytes, and one TB
equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes). Actual
capacity will vary depending on operating
environment and formatting.
Ultrastar is a trademark of Hitachi GST. Hitachi
trademarks are authorized for use in countries
and jurisdictions in which Hitachi has the right
to market the brands. Hitachi is not liable for
third parties’ unauthorized use of Hitachi
trademarks. All other trademarks are properties
of their respective owners.
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