It also includes the company's CoolSpin technology, which spins the platters at varying speeds to keep energy consumption at up to 28 percent less than its higher-performance 7,200-rpm models. One of the two Hitachi GST models, the Deskstar 5K4000, is a 3.5-inch hard drive with a 32-MB cache and a 6-Gbps SATA interface. Rival Seagate is also planning early next year to come to market with 4-TB hard drives, including a hybrid model featuring an internal Flash memory SSD. Hitachi GST has already started shipping the new bare drive in a retail version via retail channels, but plans to offer both in quantity starting the first quarter of 2012. Hitachi GST, which is in the process of being acquired by Western Digital in a $4.3 billion deal, is also providing information to customers on how to take advantage of the larger capacities of its new drives. However, solution providers whose customers run older PCs with 32-bit operating systems may want to first take a breath, as older PCs cannot handle more than 2.2 TBs of capacity on a single drive without some work involving partitions and different drivers.
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