Hitachi Ultrastar C10K900 10,000 RPM Hard Drive Unveiled
Faced with the threat of SSD, the Hitachi drive has not said its last word! In addition to the first internal 4 TB hard drive, Hitachi announced yesterday a new hard drive for the company claiming an improvement in every aspect of its predecessor.,
Intended for servers, the "Ultrastar C10K900" starts adopting the traditional format of 2.5 inches and a RPM speed of 10,000 rev / min. By bringing the capacity to 900 GB, it would offer data transfer rates and random sequential at 17% higher than its nearest competitor, unfortunately without elaborating.
But it was with its access time, the hard disk offers a good compromise between an SSD and a current hard drive. With an average of 3.8 ms, it is halfway between a 0.1 ms and 10 ms compared with SSD hard drive 3.5-inch 7200 rev / min.
The newcomer also progressed in terms of energy efficiency with a consumption of 5.8W over (2-4 against W for a SSD) and 3W at rest (against less than 1W).
The "Hitachi Ultrastar C10K900" finally supports hardware encryption. It will be launched in the first quarter of 2012, price is yet to be known. Variants of 300, 450 and 600 GB are also available.
Re: Hitachi Ultrastar C10K900 10,000 RPM Hard Drive Unveiled
Although these features are impressive for an HDD plate, but they are still down as compared to a SSD. The disappearance of traditional HDD is inescapable: You hear that sound from the platter, this is the sound of inevitability and lack of leisure.
