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)

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