Hitachi launches 300GB drives for SCSIs

This first ever 300GB enterprise hard disk drive, the Ultrastar 10K300, has been designed to satisfy the requirements of mission-critical storage systems, such as online transaction processing, data analysis and media streaming.

The new 3.5-inch drives run at 10,000 rpm and are available in Ultra 320 SCSI and 2Gb/s Fibre Channel (FCAL) interfaces.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies new drive has an enhanced head designed to provide reliability and performance and will also use Fluid Dynamic Bearing motors for low acoustic rating and improved data integrity.

This new drive breaks the capacity record for the SCSI drive, made over three years ago by Seagate's Barracuda 180.

Fumio Kugiya, general manager, Server Business Unit, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies said: "Being first to market with a 300GB server drive is a significant milestone. Hitachi's technology expertise and product breadth are among the many reasons that customers are increasingly looking to Hitachi to meet their disk storage requirements. This is a significant achievement to Hitachi and is expected to solidify our position as one of the industry's top enterprise hard drive manufacturers."

Hitachi achieved this new capacity by more than doubling the amount of data that can be stored per square inch on the platters instead of increasing the number of platters in each spindle.

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