Sunday, May 1, 2011

7200 RPM, 3TB enterprise-class hard drives


Avnet is now shipping the world's first 7200 RPM, 3TB enterprise-class hard drives from Hitachi.
  • New Ultrastar™ 7K3000 drive family is the first 7200 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.
  • Available now with 6GB/s Serial ATA (SATA) interfaces
  • 32% lower watts/GB than previous generation
Highlights
  • 2.0 million hours MTBF
  • Up to 3 terabytes of capacity
  • 6Gb/s SATA model for configuration flexibility
  • Dual Stage Actuator (DSA) and Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) for robust performance in multi-drive environments
  • 24x7 accessibility for enterprise-class, capacity-optimized applications
  • 5-year warranty
Applications / Environments
  • Cloud storage
  • Massive Scale Out (MSO)
  • Decision support & RAID
  • Data warehousing & mining
  • Disk-to-disk backup & archiving
  • RAID arrays
  • Network Attached Storage (NAS)

ultrastar-7k3000-details

NavigateStorage is testing 3TB drives now, so stay tuned.

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