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To meet the
growing demand for higher-capacity, more
efficient enterprise storage systems, Seagate
introduced the Savvio® 10K.3 hard drive – the
world’s highest-capacity, small form factor
2.5-inch enterprise hard drive built for the
demands of enterprise servers and storage
arrays. This latest generation of 2.5-inch drive
offers 70% lower power and greater than 60%
performance density over traditional 3.5-inch
drives. As the only 10K-rpm 2.5-inch enterprise
design backed by two prior generations of
field-proven reliability, the Savvio 10K.3 drive
leads the industry with 300GB of capacity,
reliability of 1.6 million hours MTBF, and an
advanced SAS 2.0 (6Gb/sec data rate) interface.
Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive is also the
industry’s first 2.5-inch self-encrypting
enterprise drive with government-grade Full Disk
Encryption (FDE) data protection.
“The combination of higher capacity and 6Gb SAS
on an enterprise-class small form factor disk
drive, like the Savvio 10K.3 drive, continues to
entice the industry to move from 3.5-inch to
2.5-inch based solutions for use in enterprise
storage systems and arrays,” said Dave Reinsel,
vice president of Storage Research at IDC. “IDC
predicts that shipments of small form factor
enterprise drives into enterprise solutions will
outnumber 3.5-inch enterprise drive shipments by
2010.”
Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive was built to
accommodate a wide range of mainstream
enterprise storage applications, where both high
capacity and low power consumption are critical
requirements within an IT organization.
“Seagate was the pioneer of the 2.5-inch form
factor enterprise standard, stemming from work
with customers to better understand data center
requirements, including the need for greater
storage performance density, while continuing to
focus on reducing power consumption and cooling
costs,” said Sherman Black, senior vice
president and general manager, Seagate
Enterprise Compute Business. “The Savvio 10K and
15K families have evolved into becoming the most
widely-adopted 2.5-inch enterprise drive
families throughout the enterprise. Now, with
the introduction of the 300GB Savvio 10K.3
drive, more versatile storage systems can be
built based upon this sweet-spot capacity.”
Major OEM evaluations of the Savvio 10K.3 drive
have begun. General product availability is
planned for the second half of calendar year
2008.
Savvio 10K.3 Product Details
Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive offers tremendous
improvements over 3.5-inch 300GB 15K-rpm drives
including a 70% power savings. Savvio 10K.3
performance is even greater at a system level,
delivering a 60% improvement in IOPS density,
while also providing at least twice the
capacity. These 2.5-inch drive advantages in
total translate into greater overall value and
reduced total cost of ownership to IT
organizations and administrators eager to
optimize their data center’s power and
performance efficiency.
The
Savvio 10K.3 is also the world’s first drive to
operate at 6Gb/sec transfer rates, which is part
of the new SAS 2.0 feature set. SAS 2.0 was
developed to provide additional signal and data
integrity features to enable SAS to be
ideally-suited for use in high-end network
storage applications.
Delivering on Seagate’s commitment to add
security features throughout its product
portfolio, Savvio 10K.3 will be offered with
self-encrypting FDE technology. As the
industry’s first 2.5-inch self-encrypting drive,
the Savvio 10K.3 provides data-at-rest
protection for its entire life cycle.
Seagate Helps Data Centers Focus on Going Green
with PowerTrim™ Technology
Seagate’s next-generation PowerTrim technology
is integrated into the Savvio 10K.3 drive and
manages drive power consumption during idle
activity. With PowerTrim technology, the Savvio
10K.3 addresses the IT dilemma facing
energy-constrained data centers by delivering
best-in-class power savings.
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