HGST Releases High Capacity Hard Drives For Mission-Critical Applications
The Ultrastar® is designed to improve storage density and lower power consumption in high-performance computing environments.
HGST has released a new family of high-performance, high-capacity, 2.5-in., small form factor (SFF), 15K RPM enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDD): the Ultrastar® C15K600 family. The new Ultrastar C15K600 family is designed to enable higher density and higher performing servers, blades, and network storage arrays all while reducing space requirements, lowering cooling costs and improving total cost of ownership (TCO).
Supporting demanding 24/7 enterprise workloads like on-line transaction processing and intensive data analytics, the Ultrastar C15K600 delivers the highest 15K HDD performance in the industry. This is achieved through several innovations, including HGST’s media caching technology, which provides a large caching mechanism for incoming data resulting in significantly enhanced write performance over solutions with limited NAND or flash-based non-volatile cache (NVC). It is also the only 2.5-in. enterprise-class HDD family to feature a SAS 12Gb/s interface for reliable data throughput and a 128MB cache buffer for optimized read/write response time for reliable high-performance computing.