High performing SAS Drives & Extended Duty Serial ATA Drives Designed for
24/7 Operation
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Fujitsu Computer Products of
America, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of innovative computer
products including hard disk drives, peripherals and biometric security
solutions, today announced four new hard disk drives (HDD) designed to meet
the needs of enterprise and entry server applications. Fujitsu's Serial
Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives provide a
one-stop solution for a broad range of applications, such as business to
mission- critical, multi-drive server, and storage system environments
requiring 24/7 reliability and performance.
"Fujitsu is focused on understanding our customer's storage needs for
high capacity and reliable hard disk drives that meet the growing demand
for enterprise and entry server applications. Today we announce four new
series of hard disk drives to support customer growth and position Fujitsu
at the forefront of the enterprise storage market," said Joel Hagberg, vice
president, marketing and business development, Fujitsu Computer Products of
America, Inc. "I believe that the new small form factor Serial Attached
SCSI drives complement Fujitsu's established position in the enterprise
storage market with industry-leading performance and capacity inside a form
factor that allows users to maximize the use of storage footprint, while
reducing the energy consumption."
Fujitsu has introduced a portfolio of three new enterprise class SAS
drives designed to support mission critical server and storage systems. The
first hard disk drive in this series, the MBB2147/MBB2073, Fujitsu's second
generation SFF 10K SAS drive, offers up to 1471GB capacity at a rotational
speed of 10,000RPM. This drive also has a load/unload head ramp that helps
to reduce handling damage. This hard disk drive series will be available in
the second quarter of 2007.
-- Capacity: 147GB/73GB
-- Rotational Speed: 10000 RPM
-- Interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
-- Read/Write Seek Time: 4.0ms/4.5ms typ.
-- Acoustic (Idle): 2.9 bels typ.
-- Idle Power Consumption: 4.7W typ. (Best-in-class)
-- Buffer Size: 16MB
The next hard disk drive in this new lineup is the MBC2073/MBC2036, a
2.5" enterprise SAS drive with 15,000PRM rotational speed offering up to
73GB(1) capacity. This drive also targets mission critical server and
storage system applications. This hard disk drive series will be available
in the third quarter of 2007.
-- Capacity: 73GB/36GB
-- Rotational Speed: 15000RPM
-- Interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
-- Read/Write Seek Time: 3.0ms/3.5ms typ.
-- Acoustic (Idle): 3.2 bels typ.
-- Idle Power Consumption: 5.3W typ. (Best-in-class)
-- Buffer Size: 16MB
The third enterprise class hard disk drive of the new portfolio is the
MBA3300/MBA3147/MBA3073 drives, with capacity up to 300GB at rotational
speed of 15,000RPM. These drives include a 16MB buffer size for SAS and
4Gbps fibre channel interface drives, and are targeted toward mission
critical applications and systems where high performance and high capacity
is required. This hard disk drive series will be available in the second
quarter of 2007.
-- Capacity: 300GB/147GB/73GB
-- Rotational Speed: 15000 RPM
-- Interface: Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3G, U320, Fibre Channel 4G
-- Read/Write Seek Time: 3.4ms/3.9ms typ.
-- Acoustic (Idle): 3.6 bels typ.
-- Buffer Size: 16MB SAS/ FC4, 8MB U320
In addition to its enterprise lineup, Fujitsu has introduced the
MHW2120BK series 2.5" SATA hard disk drives that will offer up to 120GB
capacity to enable 24/7 operation for a variety of applications, including
blade server, telecommunications, surveillance, industrial PC, and robotic
applications. Key features and enhancements include 24/7 operation,
built-in functions to minimize the adverse effects of rotational vibration
and a 3.0Gb/sec transfer rate. Offering 7200RPM speed ensures the highest
possible performance available with 2.5" SATA drives today. This hard disk
drive series will begin shipping in the third quarter of 2007.
-- Capacity: 120GB/80GB/60GB
-- Rotational Speed: 7200 RPM
-- Interface: SATA 3.0Gb/sec & 1.5Gb/sec
-- Buffer to Host Transfer Rate: 300MB/sec max.
-- Read/Write Seek Time: 10.5ms/12.5ms typ.
-- Track-to-Track Seek Time: 1.5ms typ.
-- Idle Power Consumption: 0.8W typ.
-- Acoustic (Idle): 2.5 bels typ.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications
solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies,
highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide
corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver
comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its
customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702)
reported consolidated revenues of 5.1 trillion yen (US$43.2 billion) for
the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007. See http://www.fujitsu.com for further
information.
About Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. conducts engineering and
marketing activities in Sunnyvale, CA and sales operations throughout the
United States. Fujitsu Computer Products of America currently offers
products and services including scanners and scanner maintenance, hard disk
drives, palm vein recognition technology and 10Gb Ethernet switches.
Fujitsu Computer Products of America is located at 1255 East Arques Avenue,
Sunnyvale, CA, 94085. For more information about Fujitsu products and
services, call us at 800-626-4686 or 408-746-7000. For more information,
please see: http://us.fujitsu.com/fcpa.
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Possibilities are Infinite is a trademark of Fujitsu Ltd. All other
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are based on normal operating conditions and are not intended to create any
implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. reserves the right to modify at
any time without notice these statements, our services, products, and their
warranty and performance specifications.
(1) One gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes; accessible capacity will be
less and actual capacity depends on the operating environment and
formatting.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Ayumi Sakoda
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.
408/746-7297
asakoda@us.fujitsu.com
Stephanie Luttringhaus
Voce Communications, Inc.
650/228-5173
luttringhaus@vocecomm.com
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