HGST announced that it is shipping a new family of high-performance, high-capacity, 2.5-inch small form-factor (SFF), 15K RPM enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDDs) – the Ultrastar C15K600 family.
The demand for more efficient storage continues to grow as IT and facilities collide, creating the need for a better balance between capacity, performance, physical space and energy usage. To bridge this gap, customizing and tiering infrastructure workloads and tuning HDDs and SSDs by application and function will help data center managers more efficiently handle ever-increasing amounts of data.
Supporting demanding 24/7 enterprise workloads like online transaction processing and intensive data analytics, the Ultrastar C15K600 delivers the highest 15K HDD performance in the industry. It is also the only 2.5-inch 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.
By doubling the capacity of current generation 2.5-inch 15K drives, and matching the highest capacity point of 3.5-inch 15K drives, the Ultrastar C15K600 easily keeps pace with the need for improved storage density. Its 600GB capacity match further enables enterprise customers to transition from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch HDD platforms while benefiting from other gains such as higher performance and lower power.
The 512n and 4Kn versions of the Ultrastar C15K600 hard drive family are now shipping, and are being qualified by select OEMs. The 512e version will be available this summer. The new FIPS 140-2 certified Ultrastar 12GB/s SAS SSDs are also now shipping.
