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Leadership performance
Ultrastar™ C10K900 is a 2.5-inch 10,000 RPM hard drive that leads the industry with 18%
faster sequential and up to 17% random performance than the nearest competitor. The high-
performance SAS 6Gb/s interface delivers data reliability, availability and scalability and is the
only small form factor SAS drive in the industry to pack a 64MB cache buffer for optimized
read/write response time.
Best-in-class power performance
Power management innovations designed into the Ultrastar C10K900 enable industry-leading
power efficiency, up to 28% better than competing drives, and translate into reduced power
requirements and lower cooling costs. Hitachi Advanced Power Management technology,
with multi-state idle modes, maintains compatibility with the INCITS T10 Technical Committee
standards direction and can be pre-programmed or manually initiated in the system. Ultrastar
C10K900 continues the Hitachi tradition of environmental leadership with its halogen-reduced
components and focus on low power consumption, and carries the Hitachi EcoTrac classification.
Driving the small form factor transition
Ultrastar C10K900 delivers capacity parity with 3.5-inch 10K drives, providing a massive
900GB of storage space and enabling lower total cost of ownership for many Enterprise
environments, especially networked storage arrays. When faced with space and power limitations,
the Ultrastar C10K900 is an efficient solution for online transaction processing, intensive
data analysis and multi-user applications. Some models of the C10K900 also offer Bulk Data
Encryption for hard-drive-level data security. These self-encrypting models are designed to
the Trusted Computing Group’s Enterprise A Security Subsystem Class encryption specification
and allow customers to reduce costs associated with drive retirement and extend drive life by
enabling swift and secure repurposing of drives.
900, 600, 450 and 300GB | 10,000 RPM
2.5-inch SFF | SAS 6Gb/s
Highlights
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Built on field-proven, reliable design
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Industry-best performance in a 10K RPM
2.5-inch form factor
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18% faster sequential and up to 17% better
random performance than competition
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Uses 28% less power during operation
than competition
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900GB
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capacity continues to support the
3.5- to 2.5-inch form factor transition
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High-performance 6Gb/s SAS for reliable
data throughput
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Large 64MB cache buffer manages
data efficiently
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Halogen-reduced design and industry-best
power utilization for most eco-friendly 10K
SFF hard drive
Applications/Environments
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Space and/or power constrained environments
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Enterprise-class servers and networked
storage arrays
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Blade and 1U/2U rack-mounted servers
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Databases and Online Transaction
Processing (OLTP)
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High performance computing and other
24x7 applications
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Cloud computing
Industry-leading power efficiency and performance
Feature / Function
Benefits
Return on
Advanced power management
Cool enterprise SAS with lower power requirements
900GB, 600GB, 450GB and 300GB
More capacity for less space and
configuration flexibility
Performance
Dual Stage Actuator
Enhances seek performance
SAS 6Gb/s dual port
Fastest interface for enhanced reliability
10K RPM
Low latency for faster access to data
64MB cache buffer
Manages data efficiently
Rotational Vibration Safeguard (RVS)
Maintains drive performance in high rotational
vibration environments and multi-drive systems
Workload detector technology
Maximizes performance in RAID environments
Reliability
IDRC technology
Improves signal processing for more robust data integrity
RRO fields
Improves handling of repeatable run out to lower risk of
data squeeze and write inhibit rate
End-to-end data protection (ANSI)
Enhances error detection for optimal data integrity
without capacity loss
Patented Head load/unload ramp
Minimizes handling damage during integration
Features and Benefits
Investment
Ultrastar
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C10K900
2.5-INCH ENTERPRISE 10K RPM HARD DISK DRIVES
