No self-respecting drive head desires to travel further than is precisely essential to fetch that bloody MP3 you only clicked. That’s why Hitachi’s effort to cram 1TB onto a single platter with a snug 569 gigabits per square inch makes plenty of sense: it reduces the space between chunks of information, thereby improving the HDD’s sequential transfer rates while also lowering its calorie consumption. You will see these ultra-dense discs within the new 1TB Deskstar 7k1000.D and 5k1000.B models, which started shipping today, in addition to within the CinemaStar range coming later q4. Sure, Seagate got there first , but we’ll happily overlook that fact once Hitachi decides to serve up a five-platter 5TB whopper to compliment our lettuce. Full specs within the PR after the break.
New Family of Deskstar and CinemaStar Hard Drives Reach Areal Density Milestone;
Optimized One-Disk Design Offered in 250GB to 1TB Targeting 3.5-inch HDD Industry Capacity Sweetspots
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Because the first to ship a multi-disk 1TB hard drive (HDD) in 2007, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced this is has achieved a further 1TB milestone by squeezing it on a single disk. Leveraging the company’s strong R&D heritage and time-to-market leadership, the hot one terabyte per platter (1TB/platter), one-disk, Hitachi Deskstar™ 7K1000.D drive family is now shipping worldwide. Featured in both Deskstar and CinemaStar™ brands, Hitachi is providing a whole range of capacities, 250GB – 1TB, on both low RPM CoolSpin™ and seven,200 RPM platforms.
With the addition of the recent Deskstar and CinemaStar drives, which might be first in a family of 1TB/platter drives, Hitachi continues to present among the broadest most suitable product lines for desktop and mobile solutions. For the ultra thin and lightweight notebook market, Hitachi delivers the 7mm z-height Travelstar™ Z5K500 drives (636 gigabits per square inch “Gb/in²”). And now, ideal for prime-performing desktop computers and the buyer electronics (CE) market, Hitachi presents the brand new 1TB/platter Deskstar and CinemaStar family drives (569 Gb/in²).
“The areal density race continues and while having the best capacity is appealing, reaching 1TB per platter is equally important because it serves a whole range of applications and opportunities around the industry’s largest market volume,” said Brendan Collins, vp of product marketing at Hitachi GST. “As we ship our first 1TB per platter drives, we all know we’re delivering capacity, reliability and cost to a broad customer base. Not just are we shipping our 1TB per platter drives to our own Branded Business, but we’re shipping to our channel partners besides, enabling them to design affordable HDD-based solutions at attractive price points.”
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D and Deskstar 5K1000.B with Coolspin Technology
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D harddisk family provides the perfect combination of performance, capacity, reliability and usability required for today’s power-friendly consumer and commercial desktop computers, in addition to external storage solutions, PC gaming systems, and desktop RAID arrays. Built using Hitachi’s proven 7,200 RPM platform, the drive delivers amazing speed with a 6Gb/second Serial ATA interface and a 32MB cache buffer. With eighth-generation power management technology and gear-saving HiVERT™ innovations, this new drive provides as much as 15 percent idle power savings over the former model.
Hitachi is usually offering the recent Deskstar 5K1000.B drive family with low power and funky operation. With CoolSpin technology, which includes other Hitachi power management techniques, the Deskstar 5K1000.B delivers a 23 percent idle power savings over the Deskstar 7K1000.D, enabling a brand new generation of cool and quiet personal computing devices.
The low power profile of both the Deskstar 7K1000.D and the Deskstar 5K1000.B drives helps reduce overall system power requirements for developing energy-efficient systems.
Hitachi CinemaStar 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B
HD, IPTV and Internet TV growth are driving the demand for cost-effective storage-based TVs and DVRs for consumers to record, playback, surf and stream their favorite movies and shows from their TVs. Within the CE space today, approximately 90 percent of HDD demand is for single-disk capacities starting from 250GB to 500GB, which might be served by Hitachi’s new 1TB/platter CinemaStar family. The hot Hitachi CinemaStar 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B product lines give customers a dedicated 3.5-inch family that delivers a balance of performance, power, acoustics and capacities this is optimized for this market. With greater than 10 features and technologies optimized for A/V streaming, the hot CinemaStar 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B offer numerous capacity and RPM choices for DVRs, set-top boxes and video surveillance systems. All 1TB/platter 7,200 RPM and Coolspin versions ship with a 32MB cache buffer and a 6Gb/second Serial ATA interface.
The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B CoolSpin versions are shipping today to distributors and channel partners. CinemaStar drives are expected to ship inside the Fall. Please visit www.hitachigst.com for more info.
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