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SysOpt > News > Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk, New Enterprise Drives

Consumer and industrial technology giant Hitachi's hard drive unit this week announced that it's making good on its promise to deliver a terabyte hard drive to retailers, in addition to detailing additional plans for new enterprise drives in terabyte capacities, and with additional special features.

Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive shipped to retailers last month, the company said. However, inventories didn't reach "critical mass" until sometime this month, it added.

Regardless, the move puts Hitachi narrowly ahead of rivals, a number of whom have also promised a 1TB single-disk solution.

“Delivering the one-terabyte hard drive this year is a monumental achievement not only for Hitachi and the hard drive industry, but also for the end user,” said Shinjiro Iwata, chief marketing officer, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. "Consumers’ desire to create and share digital entertainment is the primary accelerator for capacity and performance increases in desktop PC hard drives. We are proud of the strength of the Deskstar 7K1000 as it is designed to meet the requirements of PC enthusiasts."

Hitachi's five-platter 1TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 features a 3.0Gb/sec. SATA interface, and a 32MB cache.

Other special enhancements include a ramp load/unload design that can reduce power and improve protection against shocks. It also includes what it calls Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC) -- a feature that ensures the drive head doesn't mar the media by keeping a consistent height even as thermal conditions change inside the drive during use.

The unit carries a suggested retail price of $399.

On the enterprise front, Hitachi this week unveiled three new hard drives boasting high speeds, high capacities and reliability.

The new models include the Ultrastar 15K300, the Ultrastar A7K1000, and the 10K RPM Ultrastar C10K147 -- Hitachi's first small form factor enterprise hard drive.

The fast, high-density 15,000 RPM 15K300 is targeted at mission-critical enterprise computing environments, and represents the next iteration of the popular 15K147 model.

Meanwhile, the A7K1000 is designed for lower-duty cycle enterprise storage. The 10,000 RPM model features capacities up to 1TB, and builds on the existing Deskstar E7K500, a desktop unit that the company said has also become widely adopted for enterprise SATA applications.

A wholly new product segment comes in the form of the Ultrastar C10K147, which was designed specifically to meet the current demand for high-performance, low-power servers.

"The enterprise market segment is an extremely important business for Hitachi," Iwata said. "Our customers are providing the critical storage infrastructure that supports end-users' ability to create, store and share digital content."

MTBF data was not provided for the Deskstar 7K1000 and the Ultrastar 15K300 and C10K147, although all three carry reliability estimates of 50,000 start/stops.

Hitachi said the Ultrastar 15K300 should be available in production quantities in the first week of May, while the C10K147 and A7K1000 should ship within the quarter.

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