Hitachi packs half terabyte punch
Hitachi packs half terabyte punch
A new hard drive has been released by Hitachi that can hold up to half a terabyte of information, which will be especially useful for storing audio and digital video material.
The Desktar 7K500, a 7,200 rpm Serial ATA drive has the capability of storing about 200 hours of video or about 100 movies. It is targeted at mainstream PCs and workstations, digital video recorders, nearline storage and other enterprise ATA applications.
Bill Healey, the senior vice president of product strategy and marketing at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, said: "The three Deskstar products announced today will help punctuate Hitachi's leadership in the 3.5-inch ATA segment in capacity, performance and breadth of applications.
"These new drives make up a comprehensive and diverse product line that will accelerate Hitachi's growth in the highest-growth 3.5-inch hard drive segments - spanning the low to high-end and consumer to enterprise ATA applications."
Mark Hartney, Silicon Image's SATA Evangelist, talked about how the combination of its 3Gb/s Sil 3124-2 host controller and 3Gb/s Sil 3726 Port Multiplier with the Deskstar drives will help improve processing speed.
"Silicon Image is pleased to see the 3Gb/s Hitachi Deskstar drives delivering burst rate performance that is 61 percent faster than competitive SATA 1.0 products. We expect the benefit of this link speed increase to be most beneficial in demanding, high bandwidth application environments."
The new Deskstar drive portfolio will be available as a Deskstar 7K80, a Deskstar T7K250 and a Deskstar 7K500.
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