HITACHI GST SHIPS THE INDUSTRY’S FIRST TWO TERABYTE 7200 RPM DESKTOP HARD DISK DRIVE
Announcement posted by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies 07 Aug 2009
Sydney – August 7, 2009 – Continuing its
tradition of being first-to-market with industry leading hard drives, Hitachi
Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced that it is now shipping
the world’s first, two terabyte (2TB), 7200 RPM hard disk drive (HDD). The new,
colossal, 2TB Deskstar™ 7K2000 blends high performance and high capacity with
low power and other eco-friendly features designed to enable Energy-Star rated
computers and other high performance desktop systems.
Leveraging a solid track record for
reliability, the new Deskstar 7K2000 is now in its fourth-generation using the
company’s unique five-platter design with relaxed bit density and proven
perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology. Couple this with an
ultra-quiet operation, a 32MB cache and a 3Gb/s SATA interface, and the new
Deskstar 7K2000 is the ideal desktop drive for power users, gamers or anyone
looking for a big, fast hard drive.
“The new Deskstar 7K2000 reflects our
ongoing commitment to provide customers, channel partners and OEMs with proven,
reliable solutions for enabling desktop computers, gaming systems, workstations and
desktop RAID arrays,” said Brendan Collins, vice president of marketing,
Hitachi GST. “At Hitachi, we continue to offer one of the
broadest product lines in the world with a focus on delivering industry-leading
hard drives that meet the reliability, performance, capacity and power needs of
a variety of traditional and emerging market segments.”
“The demand for higher capacity disk drives is being fueled by the persistent growth of digital information generated by consumers and organizations alike,” said John Rydning, research director for hard disk drives at IDC. “With the introduction of the industry's first 7200 RPM, 2TB HDD, Hitachi GST is building a tradition of time-to-market leadership for delivering the biggest and fastest disk drives for capacity-hungry PC users, given it was also the first HDD vendor to ship a 1TB HDD, the Deskstar 7K1000, in early 2007.”
In addition to the new 2TB Deskstar
7K2000, Hitachi GST is also refreshing its high-volume desktop hard drive
family. The new 7200 RPM Deskstar 7K1000.C family will deliver up to 500GB per
platter, and will come in capacities of 160GB to 1TB, hitting the capacity and
performance sweet spots for mainstream desktop applications. Like previous
generations, both the 7K2000 and 7K1000.C Hitachi Deskstar drives feature
industry-standard 512-byte sector formatting, a patented ramp load/unload
design to increase shock protection, and Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC) to
maintain a consistent fly-height during the read/write process for added data
reliability. Volume production and worldwide availability
of the new Deskstar 7K1000.C will begin in the current quarter.
Leveraging the company’s eighth-generation power
management technology, including power-saving innovations like the Hitachi
Voltage Efficiency Regulator (HiVERT™), the Deskstar 7K2000 and 7K1000.C
deliver outstanding power management and thermal emissions to help
manufacturers meet energy compliance targets for their computer systems and
storage-based solutions. For example, the new Deskstar 7K2000 offers 10 percent
idle power savings over previous generations, and on a watt-per-GB basis, idle
power has improved more than 120 percent. The new Deskstar 7K1000.C is expected
to deliver best-in-class power efficiency at 4.4 watts or less idle power,
which is the best in the industry when compared to current generation,
competing desktop drives.
In addition to being RoHS compliant and low in power,
all new Deskstar drives are now Halogen free across the entire family, earning
both the Deskstar 7K2000 and 7K1000.C the Hitachi EcoTrac™ classification.
For more information about the Hitachi GST Deskstar
7K2000 and 7K1000.C hard drives, please visit www.hitachigst.com/deskstar
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST)
develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, and
innovative external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and
manage the world’s most valued data. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives,
Hitachi GST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments,
including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and
Personal Storage. Hitachi GST was established in 2003 and is headquartered in
San Jose, California. For more information, please visit the company’s website
at http://www.hitachigst.com.
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400,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2008 (ended March 31, 2009) consolidated
revenues totaled 10,000 billion yen ($102.0 billion). The company offers a wide
range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information
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One GB is
equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes).
Actual capacity will vary depending on operating environment, formatting, file
types and compression used.
Capacities represented may not be combined.
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