The new drive is ideal for Web hosting, e-commerce applications, data mining and transaction processing. It is available in 36 and 18 gigabyte models, and it will be available this quarter. In addition to a new capacity point and shorter latency, the new Ultrastar achieves a media transfer rate of up to 647 megabits a second and seek time as low as 3.4 milliseconds. Faster seek times and data transfer rates speed information retrieval and contribute to the overall performance of the drive.
Data availability is at the core of each business process.
On industry standard benchmarks, Ultrastar 36Z15 performs up to 25 percent faster than existing 15K RPM drives and up to 50 percent faster than currently available 10K RPM drives.