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Hitachi GST says it's enterprise hard drive performance and capacity leader
posted on 17 April 2008 08:31
Hitachi GST has announced its Ultrastar 15K450 hard drive, saying it is the 'enterprise hard drive performance and capacity leader' with 450GB of capacity spinning at 15,000rpm.
Yet Seagate's Cheetah 15.6 drive, also a 3.5-inch unit, offers the same capacity and the same speed, and began shipping over a month ago. A full disk encryption version of this (15.6 FDE) was announced by Seagate on April 7th.
Like the Seagate drive, the Ultrastar 15K450 is available with Fibre Channel (4Gbit/s) interfaces. However the Cheetah 15.6 is also available with a SAS interface and has energy-saving PowerTrim technology. Hitachi GST does not match these features, offering instead an alternative SATA II (3Gbit/s) interface, a somewhat unusual choice for an enterprise-class drive.
With this background it is a little hard to understand what Hitachi GST means by its Ultrastar 15K450 being an enterprise hard drive performance and capacity leader.
[Paul Roberts, news editor.]
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