Hitachi Ships Ultrastar 15K147 Hard Drive

Hitachi has begun shipping Ultrastar 15K147 hard drives with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel (4GFC) interfaces.





The Ultrastar 15K147 is Hitachi's high-end hard drive, which delivers average seek times as fast as 3.3 ms, average latency of 2 ms and as much as 33 percent more I/Os per second compared to 10,000 RPM products. The Ultrastar allows users to access their data more quickly and efficiently. The drive is supposed to be used in mission-critical enterprise computing environments, such as online transaction processing, data analysis and other multi-user applications.

The Ultrastar 15K147 drives are available in 36, 73 and 147 GB capacities and feature 16 MB cache sizes. Hitachi will continue to offer the Ultrastar 15K147 with Ultra320 SCSI HDDs for customers using parallel-based storage systems.

4GFC hard drives have been designed for use in storage area networking, file sharing, workgroup and scientific/engineering environments. The interface standard allows for a data transfer rate of up to 400 MB/s half-duplex and up to 800 MB/s full-duplex, per port. The higher performance 4GFC interface is fully backward compatible with 2 Gb/s and 1 Gb/s hardware and has all of the same robust enterprise features as its predecessors, at twice the data transfer rate performance.

Source: press release

See also:

Hitachi Ultrastar 10K300 SCSI and Fibre Channel Drives

FirewireDirect Pro Z-RAID FireWire800/1394b Storage Solution

Hitachi And HP Offer 300GB Hard Drives




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