SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 21, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- RAID storage expert Infortrend(r) today announced that the Hitachi Global Storage Technologies one-terabyte* (1TB) Serial ATA (SATA) Ultrastar(r) A7K1000 hard drive has successfully completed qualification testing for use with Infortrend's latest EonStor RAID subsystems.** The new Ultrastar A7K1000 drive is optimized for enterprise-class reliability and performance for 24x7 business-critical applications.
Combining an EonStor array with the Ultrastar 1TB storage capacity provides a simple and cost-effective solution for tiered and nearline storage, disk-to-disk backup, network attached storage (NAS), and data warehousing. Systems integrators can now incorporate the new drive into their customers' RAID storage systems for audio video (AV) or any other data-intensive environment where large capacities and a lower per-gigabyte cost are key requirements.
"Infortrend and Hitachi GST share a commitment to maintaining leadership positions in the data storage market by constantly pushing the limits of capacity and SATA technology," said Dean Amini, director, enterprise marketing and strategy, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. "By populating high-performance EonStor RAID subsystems with Ultrastar enterprise-class SATA drives, network managers have an ideal solution for high-density storage in the enterprise."
"With its superior performance, reliability, and storage capacity, the Ultrastar A7K1000 hard drive is a perfect companion for our EonStor arrays," stated Quote Lin, senior marketing director of Infortrend Technology Inc. "The drive has been especially designed to safeguard data in multi-drive environments and will allow our customers to securely and economically build massive storage networks."
Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 Highlights
-- Up to 1TB of capacity
-- 3 Gbps SATA for high performance and configuration flexibility
-- Targeted 1.2 million hours Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
-- Enhanced Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS) for robust
performance in multi-drive environments
-- 5-year warranty
EonStor Subsystem Highlights
Supporting all RAID solutions, Infortrend enables one-stop shopping
for external RAID. Some features include:
-- Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SCSI, SAS and JBOD/SBOD solutions
-- Single or redundant, full-featured RAID controllers
-- Sophisticated SANWatch(r) RAID management software including
snapshot functionality
-- Built-in RAID6 for extreme fault tolerance -- handles two
simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss
-- Easy maintenance with hot-swappable field-replaceable units
(FRUs)
* One GB is equal to one billion bytes, and one TB equals 1,000 GB
(one trillion bytes) when referring to hard drive capacity.
Accessible capacity may be less.
** Contact Infortrend for the current list of approved products.
About Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies develops advanced hard disk drives to store and preserve the world's valued data. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, Hitachi GST enables users to fully engage in the digital lifestyle by providing high-value, high-capacity storage in formats suitable for the office, in the home or on the road. With vertically-integrated research, design and manufacturing capabilities, Hitachi GST delivers leadership technology and quality to its global customer-base.
With approximately 33,000 employees worldwide, Hitachi GST offers a comprehensive range of hard drive products for desktop computers, high-performance storage systems and servers, notebooks and consumer devices. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.hitachigst.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 384,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2006 (ended March 31, 2007) consolidated revenues totaled 10,247 billion yen ($86.8 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
About Infortrend
Infortrend, the RAID storage expert, is a pioneer in cost-effective, high performance networked storage. The company's products include EonStor(r) storage systems and RAIDWatch(r) software for virtually all storage interfaces including SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel. For over a decade, Infortrend has provided reliable, fault-tolerant technology to prominent ODMs, distributors, and storage integrators worldwide. The company's core competency includes feature-rich firmware and software, RAID controllers, and redundant and high availability RAID subsystems. Founded in 1993, Infortrend is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiex), ticker number 2495. For more information, visit www.infortrend.com.
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