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-- Hitachi Brings Proven Enterprise Storage Expertise to the Growing SSD Market; Ultrastar SSDs Deliver the Performance, Reliability and Endurance Needed to Maximize the Tiered Storage Opportunity --
SAN JOSE, Calif., November 16, 2010 – Leveraging more than 50 years of design and qualification experience, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced its new Ultrastar™ solid state drive (SSD) family. The new Ultrastar SSD400S family comes in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities, featuring both 2.5-inch 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 3.5-inch 4Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces. As the world’s first jointly developed SAS and FC enterprise-class SSDs, the Ultrastar SSD400S family combines Hitachi’s proven enterprise hard disk drive (HDD) expertise with Intel®’s extensive capabilities in developing high-endurance 34-nanometer (nm), single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory and advanced SSD technology. This combination provides unique value to customers who are increasingly looking to tiered storage as a method of managing the escalating performance, capacity, endurance and reliability demands of today's data centers.
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“Hitachi’s strategic investment and commitment in the enterprise market is evident with the new Ultrastar SSD family. Our new SSD product family not only symbolizes our market opportunity to serve evolving cloud data center infrastructures, but also delivers value to our customers in terms of increasing data center performance and reducing total cost of ownership,” said Mike Cordano, executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Marketing, Hitachi GST. “We have a strong track record of working with global enterprise customers and are proud to report favorable responses to the Ultrastar SSD400S family. With qualifications now underway, we anticipate volume shipments to commence in the first half of 2011.”
Hitachi GST and Intel Collaboration Achieves Industry Milestone to Deliver Enterprise-Class SSDs
With its legacy in hard drive innovation and years of experience in working with enterprise OEMs, Hitachi GST continues to make great strides in storage and controller technology to deliver high-quality, reliable storage solutions. Intel’s focus and investment in NAND flash memory research and SSD development provides industry-leading advancements in next-generation NAND lithography and offers high-endurance SSD technology. Together, Hitachi and Intel make a unique partnership, fueling next-generation ultra-performance data centers. Hitachi was the first enterprise storage company to pursue this partnership model in late 2008.
“Our vision of bringing high-performance, high-endurance NAND technology to the forefront of the enterprise market is reflected in Hitachi GST’s announcement today,” said Tom Rampone, Intel vice president and general manager of the Intel NAND Solutions Group. “Hitachi, in collaboration with Intel, delivers a compelling solution that addresses the ultra-high performance needs of the enterprise, while increasing reliability and lowering the total cost of ownership for a broad range of tiered enterprise server and storage workloads.”
Hitachi has the Right Formula - Proven Performance, Reliability and Endurance
The enterprise SSD market is growing at an estimated 73 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2009-2014.1 Social networks, mobile applications, web TV, online video services and new tablet-like devices – all operating in the cloud – are fueling the need for faster storage solutions and improvements in high throughput and I/O performance so data can be delivered to consumers with virtually no latency. Meanwhile, data centers are pushing the boundaries to make storage more efficient, from reducing floor space, power and cooling to leveraging next-generation technologies, like virtualization, deduplication and thin provisioning. All of this is causing a shift in how today’s IT managers are building tomorrow’s data centers.
Hitachi understands enterprise storage needs – from controllers, firmware, BIOS and operating systems (OS). With a global Systems Integration Technology Lab (SIT Lab), Hitachi works to ensure compatibility and ease of integration into new or existing tier 0 enterprise storage systems and designs. This makes it easier to bring products to market more quickly and cost-effectively. With this level of commitment, the Ultrastar SSD family has been and continues to be rigorously tested in dozens of OEM system platforms across nearly a hundred configurations resulting in millions of drive hours under test.
Working in collaboration with Intel, the Ultrastar SSD400S family combines enterprise-grade NAND flash, proprietary endurance firmware and power loss management techniques to extend the reliability, endurance and sustained performance of the new SSD family. The 400GB SSD can endure up to 35 petabytes (PB) of random writes over the life of the drive, which is the equivalent of writing 19.2TB/day for five years, ensuring greater utilization and reliability in the most demanding enterprise environments. For complete end-to-end data protection and reliability, the Ultrastar SSD400S family includes advanced data integrity and power loss management technologies that are tied with industry standards to ensure compatibility in multi-tiered SSD/HDD system designs.
The new Ultrastar SSD400S family delivers the industry’s highest sequential throughput. It is the first to reach up to 535MB/s read and 500MB/s write throughput with 6Gb/s SAS, and 390MB/s read and 340MB/s write throughput with 4Gb/s FC. The new drive also delivers up to 46,000 read and 13,000 sustained write IOPS, reaching speeds 100 times faster than traditional hard drives, resulting in rapid response times for real-time transaction processing access to “hot” enterprise data for improved productivity and operational efficiency. As fewer SSDs are required to achieve the same HDD ultra-high performance, the new Ultrastar SSD400S family offers significant value in terms of IOPS per Watt, while reducing TCO through low power consumption, efficient cooling and reduced space requirements.
HDDs and SSDs are “Better Together”
Hitachi GST leads the industry with the broadest HDD and SSD storage family for tiered storage needs in the enterprise. Hitachi’s full line of HDDs and SSDs support the entire enterprise ecosystem where HDDs and SSDs have to integrate seamlessly, side by side in tiered storage environments. Customers can now benefit from one trusted vendor supplying both enterprise-class HDDs and SSDs.
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“Extending our relationship with Hitachi GST for enterprise-class SSDs in our SBB storage arrays and storage application platforms was the preferred option for us,' said Ahmed Shihab, vice president of Strategic Planning at Xyratex. 'Because of our experience working with Hitachi GST, we are confident that the new enterprise-class SSDs will deliver the excellent reliability, high availability, maximum endurance and sustained performance that our enterprise storage customers demand.”
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“Flash-based storage has the potential to impact data centers in very positive ways, but cost and reliability concerns persist for enterprise IT managers seeking to leverage SSD technology,” said Jeff Janukowicz, research manager for Solid State Drives at IDC. “SSD solutions, such as Hitachi GST's Ultrastar SSDs, can help address these concerns by delivering high reliability, efficiency and predictable performance – all which will help fuel mainstream enterprise adoption of flash storage over the next few years.”
“Hitachi’s new SSDs sport an abundance of specification superlatives; yet this technical prowess is paired with a strong existing enterprise market-share, and a proven reputation derived from serving virtually every top tier global OEM,” said Mark Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “This combination of ability and reach means HGST is well positioned in the enterprise storage space. It is a market where, despite ever increasing demand, the likelihood is that only vendors that can offer extensive product portfolios – such as Hitachi – are likely to prosper over the long-term.”
Ultrastar SSD400S Availability
Hitachi GST has already shipped and is currently qualifying its Ultrastar SSD400S drives with select OEMs. Broader qualification samples are now available with product ramp scheduled in 2011. The Ultrastar SSD400S family is backed by a five-year limited warranty, or the maximum petabytes written (based on capacity). Please visit http://www.hgst.com/solid-state-storage for more information.
About Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) develops advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, innovative external storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s most valued data. Founded by the pioneers of hard drives, Hitachi GST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. Hitachi GST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California. For more information, please visit the company’s website at http://www.hgst.com/.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 360,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2009 (ended March 31, 2010) consolidated revenues totaled 8,968 billion yen ($96.4 billion). Hitachi will focus more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes information and telecommunication systems, power systems, environmental, industrial and transportation systems, and social and urban systems, as well as the sophisticated materials and key devices that support them. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
1 IDC, Worldwide Solid State Drive 2010-2014 Forecast and Analysis, Doc.#223876, Jul 2010.
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| Industry | Computer storage devices |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | IBM's hard drive business |
| Founded | 2003; 18 years ago |
| Defunct | 2018; 3 years ago |
| Fate | Acquired by Western Digital in 2012; brand phased out in 2018 |
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| Products | Hard disk drives solid-state drives external storage devices |
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HGST, Inc. (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) was a manufacturer of hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and external storage products and services.
It was initially a subsidiary of Hitachi, formed through its acquisition of IBM's disk drive business. It was acquired by Western Digital in 2012. However, until October 2015, it was required to operate autonomously from the remainder of the company due to conditions imposed by Chinese regulators. Chinese regulators later permitted Western Digital to begin wider integration of HGST into its main business. By 2018, the HGST brand had been phased out, with its remaining products now marketed under the Western Digital name.
History[edit]
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded on January 6, 2003, as a merger of the hard disk drive businesses of IBM and Hitachi.[1] Hitachi paid IBM US$2.05 billion for its HDD business.[2][3]
On March 8, 2012, Western Digital (WD) acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WD common stock valued at approximately $0.9 billion. The deal resulted in Hitachi, Ltd. owning approximately 10 percent of WD shares outstanding, and reserving the right to designate two individuals to the board of directors of WD. Citing antitrust concerns, China's Ministry of Commerce required HGST to operate autonomously from Western Digital, restricting outright integration between the companies' operations. As a result, HGST continued to operate independently with its own product lines and product development.[4][5]
As part of the deal, Western Digital agreed to trade assets with Toshiba, with Toshiba receiving assets for the production of 3.5-inch hard drives (1, 2 and 3-platter drives produced in Shenzhen, China), in exchange for a Toshiba factory in Thailand for producing 2.5-inch drives (which had been inactive since the 2011 floods).[6]
In November 2013, HGST announced a 6 TB capacity drive filled with helium.[7] In September 2014, the company announced a 10 TB helium drive, which uses shingled magnetic recording to improve density.[8]
In October 2015, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued a decision allowing Western Digital to begin integrating HGST into its main business. WD was required to maintain the HGST brand and sale team for at least two more years.[9] Since then, first WD-branded products left HGST's plant at 304 Industrial Park in Prachinburi Province, Thailand; in reverse, certain HGST-branded products became produced at Western Digital's plants in Bang Pa-in District, Ayutthaya Province, Thailand and Penang, Malaysia. In 2018, Western Digital announced that it was phasing out its HGST brand and that all of its remaining product lines (particularly Ultrastar) will henceforth be marketed as brands of Western Digital.[10][11]
Products[edit]
Hard drives and solid-state drives[edit]
- Ultrastar – Enterprise-class line of 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch HDDs with SCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS, and SATA interfaces; and a line of 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch Fibre Channel, SAS and PCIeNVMe SSDs. Now marketed under Western Digital brand.
- Deskstar – Desktop-class line in 3.5-inch form factor with SATA interfaces. Phased out after discontinuation of HGST brand. Western Digital-branded successors are 3.5-inch variants of WD Blue and Black HDDs, and for Deskstar NAS drives also WD Red.
- Travelstar – Mobile-class line in 2.5-inch form factor with SATA interfaces. Phased out after discontinuation of HGST brand. Western Digital-branded successors are 2.5-inch variants of WD Blue and Black HDDs.
- Endurastar – Ruggedized line in 2.5-inch form factor with PATA or SATA interfaces, primarily for automotive applications. Phased out after discontinuation of HGST brand.
- CinemaStar – 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factors, optimized for consumer electronics applications requiring quiet operation and AV streaming commands support. Phased out after discontinuation of HGST brand. Western Digital-branded successors are WD Purple and AV.
External storage[edit]
- LifeStudio products, announced in 2010 but now discontinued, were external hard drives that combine photo organization software, a 3D Wall for displaying content, a connected USB Flash key.[12]
- G-Technology external storage products, acquired in 2009,[13] are sold to AppleMacintosh communities, including users of multimedia content such as Final Cut Pro digital audio/video production professionals.
- Touro family of cloud storage backup products.
See also[edit]
- Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) – joint venture of Hitachi and LG; manufacturer of DVD and Blu-ray drives.
- Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) – manufacturer of modular enterprise storage systems, software and services.
References[edit]
- ^'Hitachi Establishes 'Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,' Taking A Bold New Step for Storage Innovation' (Press release). Hitachi. January 6, 2003.
- ^Hitachi buys IBM disk drive business, June 6, 2002Archived March 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^'Hitachi and IBM Complete Hard Disk Drive Agreement' (Press release). IBM. December 31, 2002.
- ^Sayer, Peter (2018-11-30). 'Inside Western Digital's massive cloud ERP migration'. CIO. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
- ^Byford, Sam (March 9, 2012). 'Western Digital completes $4.8b Hitachi GST buyout, becomes world's largest HDD manufacturer'. The Verge.
- ^Hollister, Sean (2012-02-28). 'Western Digital and Toshiba trade hard drive tech, clearing the way for WD / Hitachi merger'. The Verge. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
- ^Mellor, Chris (November 4, 2013). 'Helium-Filled disks lift off: You can't keep these 6TB beasts down'. The Register. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
- ^Gasior, Geoff (September 9, 2013). 'Shingled platters breathe helium inside HGST's 10TB hard drive'. The Tech Report. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
- ^'China finally says yes to WD-HGST union'. The Register. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
- ^Hagedoorn, Hilbert. 'Western Digital moves away from the HGST branding'. Guru3D.com. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
- ^Sharp, Lenny (2018-03-15). 'Western Digital Unveils New Addition: 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320'. Western Digital Corporate Blog. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
- ^Dong Ngo (July 7, 2010). 'Hitachi unveils LifeStudio storage solutions'. CNet news blog. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
- ^'Hitachi GST Completes Acquisition of Fabrik, Inc. — Company Sets Stage for Continued Global Expansion'(PDF). News release. April 6, 2009. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 20, 2010. Retrieved June 25, 2013.