HITACHI GST SHIPS ONE TERABYTE PER PLATTER HARD DRIVES
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 07 September 2011, 22:42 IST
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Bangalore: As the first to ship a multi-disk 1TB hard disk drive (HDD) in 2007, Hitachi Global Storage Technologie’s announced that is has achieved another 1TB milestone by squeezing it on a single disk. Leveraging the company’s strong R&D heritage and time to market leadership, the new one terabyte per platter (1TB/platter), one-disk, Hitachi Desk star 7K1000.D drive family is now shipping worldwide. Featured in both Desk star and Cinema Star brands, Hitachi is providing a full range of capacities, 250GB – 1TB, on both low RPM Cool Spin and 7,200 RPM platforms. With the addition of Desk star and Cinema Star drives, which are first in a family of 1TB/platter drives, Hitachi continues to offer one of the broadest most reliable product lines for desktop and mobile solutions. For the ultra thin and light notebook market, Hitachi delivers the 7mm z-height Travel star Z5K500 drives. And now, ideal for high-performing desktop computers and consumer electronics (CE) market, Hitachi presents the new 1TB/platter Desk star and Cinema Star family drives. “The areal density race continues and while having the highest capacity is appealing, reaching 1TB per platter is equally important as it serves a full range of applications and opportunities across the industry’s largest market volume,” said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at Hitachi GST. Hitachi Desk star 7K1000.D and Desk star 5K1000.B with Cool spin Technology The Hitachi Desk star 7K1000.D hard drive family provides the ideal combination of performance, capacity, reliability and value required for today’s power-friendly consumer and commercial desktop computers, as well as external storage solutions, PC gaming systems, and desktop RAID arrays. Built using Hitachi’s proven 7,200 RPM platform, the drive delivers amazing speed with a 6Gb/second Serial ATA interface and a 32MB cache buffer. With eighth-generation power management technology and power-saving HiVERT innovations, this new drive provides up to 15 percent idle power savings over the previous model. Hitachi is also offering the new Desk star 5K1000.B drive family with low power and cool operation. With Cool Spin technology, along with other Hitachi power management techniques, the Desk star 5K1000.B delivers a 23 percent idle power savings over the Desk star 7K1000.D, enabling a new generation of cool and quiet personal computing devices Hitachi Cinema Star 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B HD, IPTV and Internet TV growth are driving the demand for cost-effective storage-based TVs and DVRs for consumers to record, playback, surf and stream their favorite movies and shows from their TVs. In the CE space approximately 90 percent of HDD demand is for single-disk capacities ranging from 250GB to 500GB, which can be served by Hitachi’s new 1TB/platter Cinema Star family. The new Hitachi Cinema Star 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B product lines give customers a dedicated 3.5-inch family that delivers a balance of performance, power, acoustics and capacities that is optimized for this market. With more than 10 features and technologies optimized for A/V streaming, the new Cinema Star 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B offer a variety of capacity and RPM choices for DVRs, set-top boxes and video surveillance systems.

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