Hitachi announces Ultrastar 15K450 hard drive
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Apr 16, 2008 at 4:20am
Hitachi has announced the Ultrastar 15K450, a new drive that uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to deliver 450GB of storage, currently the highest available capacity in 15,000 RPM enterprise-class hard drives.
The drive features average seek times as low as 3.3 milliseconds and the fast rotational speeds reduce average latency time to 2 milliseconds, according tot the folks at Hitachi. The new drive will ship with either 3Gb/second Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or 4Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces.
The Ultrastar 15K450 will be shipping this quarter to customers worldwide. Pricing hasn’t been announced.
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