Hitachi Introduces 450GB, 15k RPM Drive
Apr 16, 08 08:39 AM PDT
Hailed as an “Enterprise” hard drive, this type of HDD is indeed very fast (and noisy). That is why enthusiast consumers use them to build high-end gaming rigs or video-processing computers. Anyhow, Hitachi claims that the Ultrastar 15K450 offers up to 30% performance improvement over older models. The other good news is that it has lower power requirements.
- 3.6ms average seek-time
- 2ms latency
- 16MB buffer
- 3GB/s using SAS
- 4GB/s using FCAL
- 250G shock tolerance
- 3.7Bels acoustic output (idle)
- 4 Platters
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By Adam , 10/06/08 7:53 AM (CommentID #720630)
That's disgustingly fast. Too expensive for me, but you can bet if I had money to burn, I'd RAID 0 these right quick. It may be for enterprise, but, still...
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