Hitachi GST Company scheduled for the first quarter next year the shipments of hard drives series Ultrastar C10K900, designed for corporate market. According to the manufacturer, the drives in this series will be the fastest solution with a speed of 10 000 r / min. Performance gains in comparison with competing solutions by 17-18%.
Discs are made of 2.5-inch form factor, offer support for SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) interface with a maximum bandwidth of 6 Gb / s, 64MB cache, average seek time is 3.8 ms, in idle mode and read / record the average power consumption will be 3.0 and 5.8 W, respectively.
HDD Series Ultrastar C10K900 will be available in 300, 450, 600 and 900 GB versions, optionally also will be available to the system hardware encryption Bulk Data Encryption.
The cost of new products still unknown.