Hitachi introduces PMR technology-based Ultrastar 15K450 drive

(computerworld) -- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies recently announced the Ultrastar 15K450. The new drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to deliver 450GB of storage, and the company claimed that it has the highest available capacity in 15,000-rpm enterprise-class hard drives.
Hitachi said the drive is targeted at mission-critical server and storage applications, such as online transaction processing, intensive database queries and other multiuser applications.

According to Hitachi, tests on the drive indicate a 30% improvement in sequential throughput over its predecessor. The drive features average seek times as low as 3.3 milliseconds, and the fast rotational speeds reduce average latency time to 2 milliseconds, enabling customers to access data more quickly and efficiently, the company said. The new drive will ship with either 3Gbit/sec. Serial Attached SCSI or 4Gbit/sec. Fibre Channel interfaces. full story