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Late last year Connected Data’s Transporter, a private peer-to-peer storage solution, was revealed to the world through a Kickstarter campaign. Shortly thereafter we got to see the thing in person, and today those who funded Transporter will be happy to know that the company has begun fulfilling those orders. Not only that, folks who didn’t go the Kickstarter route can pre-order a Transporter (or two) from Adorama and Datavision currently, an you’ll be able to get one from Amazon, B&H Photo, J&R or PC Mall in the very near future. Interested? Prices start at $199 should you wish to supply your own 2.5-inch HDD, but those who don’t want to go the BYOD route can get a 1TB drive thrown in for 100 bucks more, and a 2TB version can be had for $399.

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Hitachi has showed off their newest enterprise hard drive, the Ultrastar C10K1200. Coming in 1.2TB capacity, this 2.5-inch hard drive is equipped with a 64MB of buffer memory, a SAS 6.0Gbps interface, a 10,000RPM spindle speed, a MTBF of 2 million hours and promises to deliver a maximum data transfer rate of 2,232MB/s (recording media). Pricing info is still unknown at the moment. [Hitachi]

Here comes a new line of mSATA SSDs from Intel, the SSD 525. Available in capacities ranging from 30GB to 240GB, these ultra-compact SSDs are equipped with 25nm MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, a SandForce SF-2281 controller, a MTBF of 1.2 million hours and can deliver read and write speeds of up to 550MB/s and 520MB/s, respectively. Prices unannounced yet. [Intel]

HGST was formerly part of Hitachi and is now a Western Digital company. HGST has announced a new enterprise class hard drive that is the industry’s highest capacity 10,000 RPM unit. The new drive offers 33% more capacity and is designed for tier 1 mission-critical cloud, enterprise server, and storage system use.

The new storage drive spins at an incredibly fast 10,000 RPMs and offers 1.2 TB of storage. The new drive is called the HGST Ultrastar C10K1200. The drive uses the SAS 6 Gb/s interface and has a 2.5-inch form factor. The drive also has a 64 MB cache buffer to optimize read/write response time.

The fast 10,000 RPM rotational speed reduces latency and allows the drive to access data faster in mission-critical applications. The drive is rated for 2 million hours mean time between failure and is intended for 24/7 operations in data centers and other high demand environments. The higher 1.2 TB capacity drive means that IT managers will be able to store 28.8 TB in a single 2U rack mount server featuring 24 bays.

The hard drive is also green producing less heat and requiring less power than previous versions allowing the data center to save money on electricity and HVAC requirements. The drive uses less than 5 W of power when idling. The new drives are available and shipping as of today at an undisclosed price.

[via HGST]

HGST launches 1.2 TB Ultrastar 10,000 RPM hard drive is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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