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Published on July 27, 2007

Timed to capitalize on the fast ramp of small form factor (SFF) enterprise hard drives in 2007, Hitachi announced it has shipped the Ultrastar C10K147 hard drive, the company's first SFF enterprise product. The 10,000 RPM Ultrastar C10K147 hard drive was developed specifically for high-performance and low-power requirements of servers, delivering up to 147GB1 of capacity and 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface.

The Ultrastar C10K147 hard drive provides a 50 percent smaller foot print and a 40 percent reduction in z-height over traditional enterprise hard drives. This compact size provides optimal space and power efficiencies while still delivering high performance with 10,000 RPM spin speed, high-speed SAS interface and 16MB data buffer. These features combine to make the Ultrastar C10K147 hard drive ideally suited for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack-mounted servers for mission-critical applications.

"With volume availability of our Ultrastar C10K147, we have delivered on our expanded 2007 enterprise product portfolio. The introduction of a small form factor enterprise hard drive and our milestone one-terabyte drive add depth to our enterprise HDD line-up and allow us to further penetrate this segment with a broader range of solutions to address our customers' needs," said Currie Munce, vice president, Enterprise HDD Business Group, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.