Hitachi today announced a trio of new products: the 15K RPM Ultrastar 15K300, 7200 RPM Ultrastar A7K1000, and the company's first small form factor (SFF) enterprise hard drive, the 10K RPM Ultrastar C10K147. Hitachi's new hard drives target the enterprise storage systems, from mission-critical and lower duty cycle storage applications to servers.



The 15K300 is the next generation of the 15K147. The Ultrastar A7K1000 represents the next generation of the Deskstar E7K500, which has become popular for Enterprise SATA applications. The Ultrastar A7K1000 is set to continue the reliability standard with a targeted 1.2 million hours mean time between failure 1 (MTBF).

A key new product in Hitachi's enterprise product portfolio is the Ultrastar C10K147, the company's first small form factor enterprise hard drive. The Ultrastar C10K147 was developed specifically for the high performance, low power requirements of servers.

Ultrastar 15K300

3.5-inch, 15,000 RPM, up to 300GB
16 MB data buffer
Ultra320 SCSI, 3Gb/s SAS and 4Gb/s FCAL interfaces
Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS)
Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC)
Adaptive format
End-to-end data protection

Ultrastar C10K147

SFF 2.5-inch 10,000 RPM, up to 147GB
16 MB data buffer
3Gb/s SAS interface
Thermal Fly-height Control
Adaptive format
End-to-end data protection

Ultrastar A7K1000

3.5-inch, 7,200 RPM, up to 1TB
3.0Gb/s SATA interface
32 MB data buffer
Targeted 1.2 million hours MTBF
Improved Rotational Vibration (RV) functionality
Self Protection Throttling (SPT) technology
Built on perpendicular magnetic recording technology

The Ultrastar 15K300 is available now with production quantities available in the first week of May 2007.

The Ultrastar C10K147 and Ultrastar A7K1000 will be delivered in the second quarter of 2007.