Hitachi Global Storage Technologies said that it has strengthened its field-tested and 3.5-inch Deskstar 7K500 Serial-ATA (SATA) hard disk drive to achieve an enterprise-class rating. Designed to provide enterprise-class reliability, the Deskstar 7K500, now E7K500, SATA 500 GB hard disk drive delivers one million hours mean time between failure (MTBF) and the five-year warranty.
Dave Reinsel, program director, storage research at IDC, said, “Enterprise storage vendors require certain levels of drive capacities, performance, and reliability in their storage solutions. SATA drives possessing a 1.0M hour MTBF, like Hitachi’s Deskstar E7K500 SATA drive, will play an increasingly important role in data centers that require 24 x 7 availability for disk-to-disk backup, email/video archiving, and other nearline storage applications.”
Jose Antelo, vice president and general manager, business management, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, stated, “The Deskstar E7K500 delivers field-proven reliability and performance for a range of nearline enterprise applications that require the right mix of functionality at a low cost per gigabyte. We have implemented a five-year warranty with the enterprise customer in mind, providing them with the reliability safeguards they’ve come to expect with enterprise-class hard disk drives.
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