HGST has announced the availability of its new 1.2TB Ultrastar C10K1200 hard drives, the largest in the C10K line of 10,000RPM enterprise drives. The C10K1200 features a 64MB cache and a 6Gb/s SAS 6Gb/s interface that is plug-compatible with the company’s Ultrastar SSDs.
Interoperability with Ultrastar SSDs allows administrators to flexibly mix and match drives during deployment, maintenance, and upgrades. A 2U, 24-bay array of 1.2TB C10K1200 drives can reach 28.8TB in capacity. HGST Advanced Power Management multi-state idle modes use less than 5W during. Select models offer Bulk Data Encryption designed to meet the Trusted Computing Group’s Enterprise A Security Subsystem Class specification.
Ultrastar C10K900 Specifications
- HDD dimensions (w x d x h mm): 70 x 100.6 x 14.8
- RPM: 10,000
- Size (GB): 1200
- Heads / Disks: 8 / 4
- Head size: Femto
- Head writer/reader: PMR
- GB/disk max: 300
- MTBF: 2.0 million hours
- Disk media type: Glass
- Disk media diameter & thickness (mm): 65/0.8
- Areal Density max (Gb/in2): 448
- BPI/TPI max. (000): 1641/273
- Average seek (ms) read/write: 4.6/5.0
- Media Data rate (int. max., Mbit/sec) : 2232
- Cache (MB): 64
- Shock (Gs) Op/Non-op: 60 / 300
- Acoustics (idle) Bels: 3.1
- Interface: SAS 6.0 Gbps
Availability
The new 2.5-inch Ultrastar C10K1200 hard drive is shipping today, and has been qualified by select OEMs.
UPDATE 06/17/13 – HGST Ultrastar C10K900 Review – POSTED
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