HGST Ships Highest-Capacity, Highest-Performing 10K RPM Hard Drive for Mission-Critical 24/7 Data Center Applications
July 09 2014 - 9:00PM
Business Wire
World’s first 1.8 TB 10K Drive Delivers a 2.5X
Boost in Random Performance and a Next-Generation 12Gb/s SAS
Interface, Establishing a New Standard for 10K RPM HDDs
HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ:WDC), today announced
that it is now shipping the world’s highest capacity and highest
performing 10K RPM hard disk drive (HDD) – the Ultrastar® C10K1800.
Based on HGST’s field proven high-quality design, the 2.5-inch
small form factor (SFF), enterprise-class Ultrastar® C10K1800
combines high capacity with a significant improvement in both
random write and sequential performance for mission-critical
storage applications requiring 24/7 availability.
Ultrastar C10K1800 (Photo: Business
Wire)
As the demand for enterprise-class storage grows, customers are
increasingly seeking tiered storage infrastructures built along a
range of raw IOPS performance, capacity and $/GB price
efficiencies. While solid state drives (SSDs) and 15K HDDs fill a
clear need in high performance solutions, the demand for 10K HDDs
continues to be strong as customers seek better $/GB metrics.
“Our customers continue to contend with explosive data growth,
balancing disparate application loads, while needing to improve
data center space and power efficiencies,” said Brendan Collins,
vice president of product marketing, HGST. “By fusing unmatched
capacity with ultimate performance in the same drive, the Ultrastar
C10K1800 offers the optimal balance of capacity, performance and
cost. We expect our customers to use the Ultrastar C10K1800 with a
complement of SSDs and 15K performance HDDs in tiered pools of
storage.”
Technology InnovationPowered by several technological
innovations including HGST’s media cache architecture, an upgraded
12Gbps SAS interface and advanced format options, the Ultrastar
C10K1800 delivers significant improvements in performance and
reliability to sustain even the most demanding 24/7 enterprise
workloads. Most notably is HGST’s media cache architecture – a
disk-based caching technology, which provides a large non-volatile
cache on the media resulting in improved reliability and data
integrity during unexpected power loss, as well as a significant
improvement in write performance even at high workloads when
compared to solutions with limited NAND or flash-based NVC.
Key benefits of the Ultrastar C10K1800 include:
- Highest storage capacity – A new
capacity point of 1.8TB with a 50 percent improvement over prior
generation 10K 2.5-inch SFF drives.
- Unmatched performance –
Leveraging HGST’s media cache architecture, the Ultrastar C10K1800
provides a boost of up to 2.5X in random write performance and a 23
percent improvement in sequential performance over prior generation
2.5-inch SFF 10K HDDs.
- Blazing fast next generation 12Gbps
SAS interface – Designed for next generation data centers, the
Ultrastar C10K1800 provides twice the bandwidth of existing 6Gbps
SAS interface, while lowering data center cost and complexity along
with backwards compatibility for existing devices and
enclosures.
- Advanced format options that support
new and legacy systems – Enabling larger capacities with
support for the latest standards including 4K native and 512
emulation, along with a 512 native offering for legacy
compatibility.
- Improved power savings – Up to a
seven percent improvement in active and idle power savings while
providing significant performance improvements over the prior
generation 2.5-inch SFF 10K HDDs.
- New security and encryption options
for data-at-rest protection – A host of security and encryption
options including Instant Secure Erase (ISE), Trusted Computing
Group (TCG) enterprise SSC-compliant Self-Encrypting Drives (SED),
and TCG enterprise SED with FIPS (Federal Information Processing
Standard) 140-2 certification, Level 2.
AvailabilityBacked by customer endorsed, field-proven
technologies and HGST’s commitment to quality, the new Ultrastar
C10K1800 HDD family delivers leading enterprise-class
specifications such as 2M hours MTBF, an annualize failure rate
(AFR) of 0.44 percent and comes with a five-year limited warranty.
Built for the modern tiered storage infrastructure, the Ultrastar
C10K1800 joins HGST’s broad portfolio of enterprise-class PCIe,
SSD, and HDD products.
The Ultrastar C10K1800 hard drive family is now shipping, and is
being qualified by select OEMs. The FIPS certified models will be
available in January 2015.
Complementing the new Ultrastar C10K1800 HDD family, HGST also
announced today that the 512 emulation format for its 15K
enterprise-class Ultrastar C15K600 product family will be shipping
in July.
For more information about the HGST Ultrastar C10K1800 solution,
please visit www.hgst.com.
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About HGSTHGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC),
develops innovative, advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class
solid state drives, external storage solutions and services used to
store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data. HGST
addresses customers’ rapidly changing storage needs by delivering
intelligent storage devices that tightly integrate hardware and
software to maximize solution performance. Founded by the pioneers
of hard drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad range
of market segments, including Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center,
Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST
was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San
Jose, California. To find out more about HGST enterprise-class HDD,
SSD and SW solutions, please visit www.hgst.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements,
including statements relating to expected demand for certain
categories of HDDs and availability dates for HDD products. These
forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed in the forward-looking statements, including changes in
markets, demand, global economic conditions and other risks and
uncertainties listed in Western Digital’s recent SEC filings, to
which your attention is directed. Readers are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which
speak on as of the date hereof, and HGST/WD undertakes no
obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect
subsequent events or circumstances.
MTBF target is based on a sample, aggregate population of a
drive family and is estimated by statistical measurements and
acceleration algorithms under nominal operating conditions. MTBF
ratings are not intended to predict an individual drive’s
reliability. MTBF does not constitute a warranty.
One GB is equal to one billion bytes, and one TB equals 1,000 GB
(one trillion bytes). Actual capacity will vary depending on
operating environment and formatting.
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affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other
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