April 16, 1998
Hitachi Announces World's Fastest Hard Disk Drive- 3.5-inch drive for the OEM market -In recent years, UNIX and Windows NT(R) server systems are being used to store and manage large amounts of information for enterprise processing, data warehousing and other such applications. The 3.5-inch drives used for such servers need to provide higher performance and improved reliability with low power consumption. Previous 3.5-inch drives provided by Hitachi for server and workstation applications include the DK319H-18, which used an MR head to achieve a storage capacity of 18.2 GB, and the slim-form-factor DK329H-91 with a capacity of 9.1 GB. The newly-announced DK3E1T-91 has the world's fastest drive speed of 12,030 rpm, and uses high-speed access technology to achieve an average seek time of 5 ms1. Newly developed signal processing technology boosts the data transfer rate to up to 27.3 MB/s2. In a transaction processing environment, the DK3E1T-91 provides an approximately 1.5-fold improvement compared to the DK329H-91. At the same time, at 11.8 W the drive 's power consumption is on a par with that of the earlier drives3, keeping heat generation down to the same level. This ensures high reliability. The new drive has a storage capacity of 9.2 GB and supports Ultra SCSI-2 and Fibre Channel interfaces.
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