We’ve seen a few 3TB hard drives going commercial already, but this specific Hitachi Ultrastar 7k3000 is unique in its own way. Being the world’s first 7200RPM hard drive rated at 2.0 million hours MTBF and backed by a five-year limited warranty, this sounds like a very serious hard drive with a tie and a formal suit for your workhorse server farms.
The new storage device offers 50 percent more capacity in the same footprint and does so at a 32 percent reduction in watts/GB versus Hitachi’s prior generation Ultrastar A7K2000 drives, which will be great news for corporate, considering energy consumption is a big issue when in large volumes.
What’s more, the Ultrastar 7K3000 family also represents the first Hitachi 7,200 RPM drives in both 6Gb/s SATA and 6Gb/s SAS interfaces, for easier integration in a much wider array of computing environments. The new Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 with a 6Gb/s SATA interface is now available in 3TB and 2TB of storage spaces, while the Ultrastar 7K3000 with a 6Gb/s SAS interface will be available in mid-2011.
SOURCE via Hitachi