Eurocom Using Hitachi TravelStar 5K1000 1TB

Eurocom
Corporation
is supporting the Hitachi
Travel Star
5 K 1000
1TB, SATA III HDD in its line of high-performance notebooks
with RAID-0/1/5/10 support and up to 4TB of storage in the
Eurocom
Panther
3.0.

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These mobile HDD are for
use within Eurocom line of high-performance mobile workstations, performance business and gaming notebooks, where users demand large
storage capacity and fast data transfer speeds.

Their mobile workstations and mobile servers are built to offer performance, long lifespan,
upgradeability of the processor, memory, storage, OS and graphics
technology, and are designed with innovative technology and
components, from workstation class desktop Xeon processors and RAID
support to dual GPU capabilities.

"At Eurocom, our customers
are extremely excited to have the opportunity to have a single 1 TB
storage drive with SATA III speed. The Hitachi TravelStar 5K1000
drive will greatly improve our overall storage offerings, next to our solid state, hybrid, mSATA and hard disk storage options,"
says Mark Bialic, Eurocom president.

The drive is a 1TB, 2.5
inch HDD with SATA III (6 Gb/s) interface. It utilizes Advanced
Format technology to increase the capacity while improving error
correction capabilities, it does this by using longer sectors that
contain 4,096 bytes, instead of 512 bytes. There are several
advantages of this. First, the drive uses less physical space to
store the same amount of data, which results in an efficiency
improvement. Secondly, a larger and more robust error correction code
can be utilized.

Eurocom offers RAID capability in
several notebooks to improve data redundancy or performance. They offers
choices between RAID-0/1/5/10 in the Panther mobile workstation and
other levels of RAID in the Neptune 2.0, Scorpius and Racer 2.0
notebooks.

The Panther Mobile Workstation
supports four storage drives to offer mobile storage capacity of up
to 4TB. It has three storage drive bays; the fourth drive is
housed in and takes the place of the optical drive bay. Eurocom
offers customers the option of replacing the optical drive in their
notebook with a storage disk, to improve storage capacity.

Eurocom Models Storage and RAID-Capability:

Panther 2 & 3: 4 storage drives – RAID-0/1/5/10
Scorpius: 3 storage drives + mSATA – RAID-0/1/5 support
Neptune 2.0: 3 storage drives + mSATA – RAID-0/1/5 support
Racer 2.0: 2 storage drives + mSATA
Fox 4.0: 3 storage drives
Monster 1.0: 1 storage drive

Hitachi Travel Star 5K1000
Specifications:

Capacity: 1TB
Interface: SATA III (6Gb/s)
Rotation Speed: 5400 rpm
Load/Unload Cycles: 600 000
Media Transfer rate: 998 Mbits/sec.
max
Interface Transfer Rate: 600
MB/sec, max
Physical Dimensions: 9.5x100x70mm;
102 g

Eurocom Storage Drive Offerings:

Hard Disk

Hitachi Travelstar 5K1000: 1TB;
5400rpm; SATA III (6Gb/s); 8MB; 9.5mm; 2.5-inch,
WD Scorpio Blue: 1TB; 5400rpm; SATA
II (3Gb/s); 8MB cache; 9.5mm; 2.5-inch,
Seagate Momentus 500GB: SATA II
(3Gb/s), 7,200rpm; 16MB cache; 9.5mm; 2.5-inch,

Solid State

80GB MLC SSD: Intel 310 series;
SATA II (3Gb/s)
600GB SSD MLC: Intel 320 series;
SATA II (3Gb/s)
300GB MLC SSD: Intel 320 Series;
SATA II (3Gb/s)
120GB MLC SSD Intel 520 series;
SATA III (6Gb/s); 25nm NAND; SF-2281
240GB MLC SSD: Intel 520 series;
SATA III (6Gb/s); 25nm NAND; SF-2281
480GB MLC SSD: Intel 520 series;
SATA III (6Gb/s); 25nm; SF-2281
128GB SSD; MLC: Micron/Crucial
RealSSD C400; SATAIII (6Gb/s)
256GB SSD; MLC: Micron/Crucial
RealSSD C400; SATA III (6Gb/s)
512GB SSD MLC: Micron/Crucial M4;
SATA-III (6Gb/s)

Hybrid

500GB: Seagate Momentus XT: SATA II
(3Gb/s); 7,200rpm; 32MB cache/4GB SLC Flash
750GB: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid;
SATA III (6Gb/s); 7,200rpm; 8GB SLC Flash
750GB: Seagate Momentus SATA II
(3Gb/s); 7200rpm; 16MB cache

mSATA