Hitachi announces 450GB 15,000 RPM enterprise-class hard drives

Hitachi today announced the Ultrastar15K450 hard drive. The new drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to deliver 450GB of storage, currently the highest available capacity in 15,000 RPM enterprise-class hard drives. The Ultrastar 15K450 is an ideal solution for mission-critical server and storage applications, such as online transaction processing, intensive database queries and other multi-user applications.