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Hitachi Ultrastar™ 15K300 Resource Guide
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15K drives – the opportunity
The emergence of 15K hard
drives has created a wealth of
new market opportunities for
systems builders. Until recently,
many systems builders have
continued to use traditional
10K hard drives within their
servers, primarily for financial
reasons. However, as the
Your customers need perform-
15K drives – the market
Hitachi Ultrastar 15K300 –
product overview
The Ultrastar 15K300 is a
ance to improve their productivity, context
and reliability to protect their user
data and reduce their total cost
of ownership (TCO). Using 15K
drives in your products, you will
be able to increase sales within
your existing customer base by
offering a higher quality product,
which delivers the required
The ultra-fast 15K drives are
designed to meet the needs of
a key element within the storage
hierarchy: enterprise computing
environments, which primarily
deal with high bandwidth appli-
cations requiring fast responses.
This may translate to systems
with multiple users, or systems
with many small items of data
stored anywhere within the disk
array, or both. Think about
15,000RPM, 3.5 inch hard drive
offering capacities of 73, 147,
and 300GB – the highest trad-
itional enterprise capacity point.
It leverages the proven system
architecture and electronics
of the previous generation and
offers SAS, SCSI and Fibre
Channel interfaces, making it
highly compatible with all 3.5
inch enterprise systems. It
performance benefits of 15K
hard drives become increasingly
apparent, more and more
systems builders are recognising
the potential they offer.
performance and reliability at
a higher profit margin. Moreover,
enhanced server capabilities
will enable you to break into new
markets, allowing you to compete transaction-based systems,
delivers the highest possible
performance with mission-critical
reliability, making it the ideal
solution for demanding enterprise
in fields previously dominated by
the major worldwide players.
web servers and SQL database
applications. In these situations,
the 24% speed increase offered
by 15K drives is clearly beneficial. computing environments like
online transaction processing,
Many systems builders are now
looking to RAID systems to
provide capacity and perform-
ance beyond that offered by
single hard drives.15K drives are
ideal for RAID systems as they
combine optimum performance
with superb reliability.
intensive data analysis and other
multi-user applications.
Applications
Benefits
n Online Transaction
Processing (OLTP)
n High load, multi-user, multi-
tasking, real-time systems
n Blistering speed – 24% faster
than standard 10K drives
n Huge capacity – up to
300GB, the highest traditional
industry standard
n Complete flexibility –
compatible with SAS,
SCSI and FC interfaces
n Best of breed reliability
Hitachi Ultrastar C10K147
Technicallyspeaking
Ultrastar 15K300 –
the technical benefits
Beyond speed
n Thermal Fly-height Control
(TFC) and Adaptive formatting
for improved reliability and
performance
n TMR head technology,
producing highly reliable high
density storage
n Head load/unload ramp to
minimize drive failures
n 5 year warranty, so you have
full peace of mind
As well as providing blistering
speed, the 3.5 inch Ultrastar
15K300 offers:
n 73GB, 147GB and 300GB
capacities for configuration
flexibility
n Rotational Vibration Safeguard
(RVS), ensuring performance in
multi-drive systems
n 16MB cache buffer, optimizing
response times and minimizing
overhead command
The Ultrastar 15K300 has been
designed to meet the demands
of speed-hungry enterprise
environments involving online
transaction processing, intensive
data analysis and multi-user
applications. Applications
which require fast, random data
access – whether in storage or
server applications.
For more information, please
refer to the compatibility tables
over the page.
The Ultrastar 15K300 delivers
24% better IOPS performance
than a standard 10K hard drive.
n Ultra320 SCSI, 3Gb/s Serial-
Attached CSI (SAS) and 4Gb/s
Fibre Channel interfaces
This improvement means that the n Workload detector technology
15K drive can meet throughput
requirements with fewer drives
than its 10K equivalent (see
Figure 1.0 below).
to maximise performance in
RAID environments
Figure 1.0: 15K performance in arrays
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
125.0
105.0
85.0
65.0
45.0
25.0
15K Read
10K Read
7200 Read
0
Gen 1
Gen 2
Gen 3
Gen 4
Gen 1
Gen 2
Gen 3
Gen 4
WhyHitachi?
Hitachi Design Studios
With Design Studios in the UK,
What next?
At Hitachi Global Storage
Technologies we realise a
Japan, the USA, China and
Taiwan, our engineers will work
with you to modify your design,
testing our hard drives within
your prototypes.
For more on how our Design
Studios could help you, or to
access our Hitachi Ultrastar
15K300 datasheets for further
technical information, visit
systems builder’s task is not an
easy one. So in addition to our
first class hard drives with proven
performance and best-of-breed
reliability, we offer a complete
Design Studio service for our
customers. Dedicated to helping
people like you get the drives
you need to make your products
excel, our Design Studios can
help with every element of the
pre- and post-sales process,
ensuring total compatibility
and performance.
Testing will include:
n Replication of every
possible working scenario
n Extreme temperature
performance
n Chassis design analysis,
minimising vibration and
optimising interfaces
In short, they’ll put your products
through their paces to ensure
they deliver optimum perform-
ance; they’ll help you solve the
problems before they occur.
Hitachi Ultrastar C10K147
Compatibilitytables
Ultrastar 15K300 compatibility: FC distribution HBAs
Ultrastar 15K300 compatibility: SAS & SCSI distribution HBAs
Manufacturer
Adaptec
Adaptec
Agilent
ATTO
Product reference
AHAF940
Manufacturer
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
Adaptec
AIC
Product reference
48300
1Gb FC
SAS
AHAF950
4800SAS RAID
4805SAS RAID
AIC-9410
AFC 9110G
Express PCI FC
LP800
Emulex
HP
1064
HHBA 5100A
5526 E-FS-C
FCE2-6410-N
FCI 1063 C1
SYM40909H
2100
1068
Interphase
JNI
1064E
1068E
JNI
3041X
LSI Logic
Qlogic
Qlogic
Qlogic
VMIC
3080X-R
3442X
2100/66
3442X-R
2200/66
3800X
5661 PCI
MegaRAID 8408E
MegaRAID 8480E
2100s
4Gb FC
ATTO
Celerity FC 41XS
Celerity FC 42XS
Celerity FC 44ES
LP11000
ATTO
SCSI
ATTO
2120s
Emulex
Emulex
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
Qlogic
Qlogic
Qlogic
Qlogic
Adaptec
Agilent
Agilent
ATTO
2200s
LPe11000
7104XP-LC
7204XP-LC
QLA2460
29160
29320
3200s
39160
QLA2462
39320
QLA2462
39320DLT
7902
QLE2462
2Gb FC
9210LP
AIC-9410
HHBA-5220A
HHBA-5420API
ExpressPCI 3300
FibreQuick PC2000
9002LP
Onboard 7899
Onboard 7902
7899 U160
UL3D
Cambex
Emulex
Emulex
Emulex
Emulex
Emulex
JNI
ATTO
Intel
SROMBU42E
SRCU42E
SRCU42L
SRCZCRX
SureSCSI320/LSI 53C
1030 onboard
20160
952L
Intel
LP9402 DC-F2
LP9802-F2
LP982-F2
Intel
Intel
Lenovo
FCE 6460-N
FCX 6562-N
FCX2 6562-N
449290
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
LSI Logic
Mylex
JNI
JNI
20320
LSI Logic
Qlogic
Qlogic
Qlogic
Qlogic
VMIC
20320-R
2300
21320
2310
MegaRAID Elite 1600
MegaRAID SCSI 320-0
MegaRAID SCSI 320-1
MegaRAID SCSI 320-2
AcceleRAID 170
2340
2342
VMIPCI-5720
Ultrastar 15K300 compatibility:
FC & SAS distribution enclosures
Ultrastar 15K300 compatibility: distribution operating systems
Manufacturer
Ciprico
Eurologic
IBM
Product reference
Operating system
1Gb FC
FibreStore
Novell Netware 6.0
Novell Netware 6.5
Red Hat 9.0
SuSE 9.0 SP3 x86 Enterprise Server
Suse 9.0 x64 Enterprise Server
SuSE 9.1 Professional
XL-500
Pro-Fibre Oyster
15-bay 1Gb
Leopard
JMR
Red Hat Advanced Server 3.3
Red Hat Advanced Server 3.3 64 bit
Red Hat AS 4.0
SUSE Enterprise Server 10 IA64 Update 3
SUSE Enterprise Server 10 x86
SUSE Enterprise Server 9.0
2Gb FC
Adgile Systems
Eurologic
IBM
SANBloc2
FastT700
Red Hat EL 4.0
SuSE Enterprise Server 9.0 SP3 x64
IBM
DF4000J
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0 Update 1 SUSE Enterprise Server 9.1
JMR
FR15GF22-2S-2
FibreArray-2002
RS1600-FC2
EXP810
Red Hat ES 3.0
Unixware 7.1.1
RAIDtec
Xyratex
IBM
Red Hat ES 4.0 EM64t
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2003 Enterprise 32bit
Windows 2003 Enterprise 64bit
Windows 2003 Enterprise IA64
Windows 2003 Server Standard R2 x64
Windows 2003 Server Standard R2 x86
Windows 2003 Server Std. R2 x64
Windows 2003 Server Std. R2 x86
Windows 2003 Standard
Red Hat ES 4.0 iA64
4Gb FC
SAS
RedHat AS 3.0 AMD_64 QU7
RedHat AS 3.0 QU1
Xyratex
AIC
RS-1600-2-F4
XJ-SA24-316R-B
Marlin
RedHat AS 3.0 QU3
JMR
RedHat AS 3.0 QU5
Promise
Xtore
J300S
RedHat AS 4.0 AMD_64
RedHat AS 4.0 AMD_64 QU2
RedHat AS 4.0 AMD_64 QU3
RedHat AS 4.0 AMD_64 QU4
RedHat AS 4.0 IA64 QU4
RedHat AS 4.0 x86 QU2
RedHat AS 4.0 x86 QU4
RedHat ES 3.0 AMD_64
RedHat ES 3.0 AMD_64 QU4
SuSE 9.0 Enterprise Server
SuSE 9.0 SP2 x86 Enterprise Server
SuSE 9.0 SP3 x64 Enterprise Server
XJ-SA12-316R-S
XJ-SA24-316R-S
RS-1603-E3-EBD
Xtore
Xyratex
Windows Longhorn Server x64 Build 5600
Windows Longhorn Server x86 Build 5600
Windows NT 4.0
Ultrastar 15K300: SAS & SCSI distribution servers
Windows Vista Beta 2 IA64 Server
Windows Vista Beta 2 x64 Server
Windows Vista x86 Server Beta 2
Windows XP Pro
Manufacturer
AIC
Product reference
X6DA3-G2/RMC3E2-XPSA Single
X6DA3-G2/RMC3E2-XPSAD Dual
SuperServer 6024H-32
SuperServer 7044H-32R
S5000PAL/SR2500ALLXSPP
S5000PSL/SC5400LXSPP
R510
SAS
AIC
Supermicro
Supermicro
Intel
Windows XP Pro x64
Intel
Lenovo
Lenovo
NEC
T/R280
Express5800 120Li
G710
SCSI
Altos
Celestica
Gateway
Gateway
Getek
Intel
A8440
960
980
G2U
SE7221BA1-E/SC5250-E
SE7221BK1-E/SR1425BK1 (SCSI)
SE7520AF2 / SC5300LX
SE7520BD2/SC5300LX
SE7520JR2/SR1450
SE7520JR2/SR2400
SR4850HW4
Intel
Intel
Intel
Intel
Intel
Intel
Intel
SR870BH2
Intel
SR870BN4
Intel
TIGPR2U
Lenovo
NEC
R520
Express5800
Supermicro
Supermicro
P4DP8-G2
X5DP8-G2
Hitachi Ultrastar C10K147
To find out more about the Hitachi Ultrastar
15K300, or how our Design Studios could
help you, visit www.hitachigst.com
Version: 1.0 Date: 05.07
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