Highlights

›500 GB of capacity with either SATA 3.0Gb/s

›1,000,000-hour MTBF reliability*

›Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for superior performance

›Rotational Vibration Safeguard for high density storage configurations

›Iridium manganese chromium head sensor technology for high reliability

›Low-power mode

Features and Benefits

*Actual storage may vary depending on the compression rate applied.

The Deskstar E7K500 hard drive is optimized
for use in nearline/low duty cycle enterprise
environments with capabilities such as Rotational
Vibration Safeguard (RVS), which maintains the
hard drive’s performance in high rotational
vibration environments where multiple drives
reside in a single enclosure.

> 3.0 Gb/s (300 MB/s) interface data rate
> NCQ (native command queuing)
> Staggered (delayed) spin-up
> Hot-swap capability

The E7K500 provides all these enhancements
to enable faster data access, better power
management to the system and higher
performance.

Applications

› Nearline storage

› Disk-to-disk back-up

› Digital video surveillance

› RAID arrays

› Tiered storage

Hitachi 5-year Warranty Provides Superior Quality and Service

The Hitachi Deskstar E7K500 extends the company’s long-standing tradition of performance and reliability leadership. Hitachi’s enterprise features for storage applications enable high capacity, fast transfers, low power and high reliability. These features combine to make the Deskstar E7K500 ideal for nearline/low duty cycle, disk-to-disk back-up and other enterprise
storage solutions.

The Deskstar E7K500 carries the industry’s most comprehensive 5-year warranty with
product replacement values throughout the life of the warranty that exceed those available from other hard drive suppliers.