“Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced that it has begun shipping Ultrastar 15K147 hard drives with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel (4GFC) interfaces. SAS is a next-generation serial interface designed to extend the capabilities of today’s parallel SCSI drives and provide users with improved performance, system design flexibility and product reliability. Hitachi will be first in the industry to ship 4GFC drives, which are expected to benefit enterprise server and storage customers who require the fastest, most reliable hard drives available today. Hitachi’s Ultrastar 15K147 drives meet the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance directive recently issued by the European Union (EU).” Source: Physorg