Hitachi announced today it has shipped the Ultrastar® C10K147 hard drive, the company’s first small form factor (SFF) enterprise product. The 10,000 RPM Ultrastar C10K147 hard drive was developed specifically for high-performance and low-power requirements of servers, delivering up to 147GB of capacity and 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface.

The Ultrastar C10K147 hard drive provides a 50 percent smaller foot print and a 40 percent reduction in z-height over traditional enterprise hard drives. This compact size provides optimal space and power efficiencies while still delivering high performance with 10,000 RPM spin speed, high-speed SAS interface and 16MB data buffer. These features combine to make the Ultrastar C10K147 hard drive ideally suited for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack-mounted servers for mission-critical applications.

Technical Specifications of Ultrastar C10K147:

• 147 / 73 GB
• 137 billion bits per square inch maximum areal density
• 4 / 2 platters, 2 / 1 recording heads
• 1057 Mb/s max. media data rate
• 3.7 ms average seek time (excludes command overhead)
• 10,000 RPM, 3.0 ms average latency
• 3Gb/s SAS
• 16 MB data buffer
• 14.8 mm in height (max)
• 227g in weight (max)
• 300 G/2 ms pulse non-operating shock
• 9.0 / 8.4 watt operating power (typical)
• 2.9 Bels typical idle acoustics
• 5 to 55 degrees C operating temperature

Source: Hitachi.