http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/hitachi-gst-aims-to-pack-4-tb-on-disk-drives-by-2011/ A SearchStorage.com blog. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/hitachi-gst-aims-to-pack-4-tb-on-disk-drives-by-2011/#comment-6802 Hitachi GST claims 40 percent power reduction in desktop drives — Storage Soup Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:48:16 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-gst-aims-to-pack-4-tb-on-disk-drives-by-2011/#comment-6802 [...] Hitachi GST is back at it again this week with another update to its disk drives, this time with a redesign of its desktop SATA and PATA drives for power efficiency. Hitachi claims the updates to its silicon on the new Deskstar P7K500 drive can reduce the drive’s power consumption by up to 40 percent–or down to as low as 6 watts when active and 2 to 3 watts while idle. [...] [...] Hitachi GST is back at it again this week with another update to its disk drives, this time with a redesign of its desktop SATA and PATA drives for power efficiency. Hitachi claims the updates to its silicon on the new Deskstar P7K500 drive can reduce the drive’s power consumption by up to 40 percent–or down to as low as 6 watts when active and 2 to 3 watts while idle. [...]

]]> http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/hitachi-gst-aims-to-pack-4-tb-on-disk-drives-by-2011/#comment-6801 SAS vs SATA: SATA on the ropes. — Storage Soup Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:34:32 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/15/hitachi-gst-aims-to-pack-4-tb-on-disk-drives-by-2011/#comment-6801 [...] And there’s a downside to size–how long would it take to rebuild a RAID 5 or 6 array made up of 4TB drives ? How would I cope if I lost 4TB of data? [...] [...] And there’s a downside to size–how long would it take to rebuild a RAID 5 or 6 array made up of 4TB drives ? How would I cope if I lost 4TB of data? [...]

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