Hitachi, the well-known developer and producer of disk , announced a pair of hard disks for the corporate sector.
The first models, Hitachi Ultrastar C15K147, is interesting by its form factor 2.5 inches, and in this case the rotation speed composes 15 000 rotation per minute, and as HDD interface is selected SAS 6 Gb/s. The second model, Hitachi Ultrastar 15K600, standard for servers and PC as a whole form factor 3.5 inch; also it has 15 000 rp/min and SAS 6 Gb/s interface, but besides this, is accessible FCAL interface 4 Gb/s.
Ultrastar C15K147 will be released in two versions with volume 73 Gb and 147 Gb, in this case it has up to 50% smaller energy consumption than other 3.5 inches Hitachi HDD . Ultrastar C15K147 has up to 23% smaller search period , if we compare it with the model, which has the rotation speed 10 000 rp/min .
The model ultrastar 15K600 will be interesting by, its volume (elder model - 600 Gb), and large cache 64 mb. The model belongs to the new fourth generation corporate disk Hitachi, and in the comparison with the previous generation, the operating speed grew by 23%, and disk space increased by 33%.