Xyratex Supports New Hitachi GST 2TB HDDs

Xyratex Ltd. announced support for Hitachi
GST‘s enterprise-class 7,200 RPM 2TB offering,
the Ultrastar A7K2000 hard disk drive. Hitachi’s Ultrastar A7K2000 2TB
hard drives have been fully integrated into Xyratex’s family of storage
systems, making it the industry’s first, fully integrated external
storage subsystem to deliver the highest-capacity, most energy
efficient 7,200 RPM drives per capacity available for enterprise
storage systems.

"For years Xyratex has been at the front end of delivering high
capacity storage systems that meet the needs generated by the ever
increasing storage growth," said Todd Gresham, senior vice president,
Networked Storage Solutions, Xyratex. "We look forward to extending our
long-term relationship with Hitachi and utilizing the A7K2000 in our
current and future systems."

Xyratex offers a family of storage solutions built on a long history of
innovation resulting in robust reliability and energy efficiencies. The
OneStor family is noteworthy for its flexible and scalable
architecture that reduces sustaining engineering costs and product
qualification expense. Xyratex OEMs are able to customize the system to
meet a diverse set of application workloads and environments ranging
from data centers to distributed operations. Xyratex also delivers a
storage server platform that allows the convergence of servers and
storage in a single, highly available system. The Hitachi 2TB Ultrastar
A7K2000 hard disk drive will be available for Xyratex products over the
next quarter.

"Xyratex and Hitachi are committed to meeting the explosive capacity
growth in enterprise data centers while advancing reduced power
consumption and improved system performance," said Brendan Collins,
vice president of marketing, Hitachi GST. "Xyratex has the proven
experience and strong customer base that will enable us to accelerate
the acceptance of 2TB hard disk drives in the enterprise."