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Seagate announced it
has begun worldwide shipment of its 1 terabyte
(TB) enterprise-class Barracuda® ES.2 hard
drives with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
interface. Applications addressing rich media
content and collaborative applications like
email can benefit from the average 135%
performance boost over SATA-interface drives
along with robust enterprise features and native
compatibility.
“The explosion of content in enterprise
environments is driving the need for faster data
access and bandwidth that Seagate’s 1TB
Barracuda ES.2 drives can deliver with a SAS
interface,” said Sherman Black, Seagate senior
vice president and general manager, Seagate
Enterprise Compute Business. “SAS dual-port
capability with redundancy, improved performance
and data integrity make this drive the perfect
low-cost/GB enterprise-ready drive for our
customers.”
SAS
also enables greater system-design and
integration flexibility for solution providers
who are eager to offer even greater value
options to their customers. “The higher
performance and inherently lower total cost of
ownership (TCO) make Barracuda ES.2 drives with
SAS a perfect choice for many of our customers,”
said Joe Cousins, vice president, Marketing at
Bell Microproducts. “With the added enterprise
features found within SAS all merging into a
lower-cost package, we anticipate our customers
will be very interested in building and
deploying SAS-based systems with Seagate®
drives.”
With the introduction of the Barracuda ES.2
drive, Seagate is first to provide customers
with a SAS interface option in addition to its
SATA model, which began shipping last year. For
major system providers including HP, SAS offers
greater levels of data integrity and performance
for business-critical and nearline enterprise
environments.
“As
a leader in the enterprise, HP ProLiant servers
and storage technologies help customers to
manage their datacenter infrastructure with
confidence,” said Ron Noblett, vice president,
Industry Standard Servers, HP. “We’re pleased to
align with Seagate for their hard drive
expertise as the new SAS 1TB drive is added to
the HP portfolio of Midline drives. These drives
will provide the ‘pennies per GB economics’ of
SATA Midline with additional performance as well
as the dual port capability our external storage
customers demand.”
The
Barracuda ES.2 hard drive with SAS is optimized
for business-critical and nearline enterprise
storage environments that demand native
enterprise host compatibility. This means no
SATA interposer card costs and complexity, along
with all the advantages including dual-port,
full duplex capability and a host of enterprise
class features for high system-level performance
and reliability.
Seagate’s PowerTrim™ technology is integrated
into the Barracuda ES.2 drive family and
dynamically manages drive power consumption at
all levels of activity. With PowerTrim
technology, the Barracuda ES.2 drive addresses
the IT dilemma facing energy-constrained data
centers by delivering a 20% reduction in overall
drive power consumption and a best-in-class 55%
reduction in watts-per-gigabyte. And moving to
SAS gives customers up to 38% improvement in
IOPs-per-Watt over SATA.
The
Barracuda ES.2 drive family’s robust features
stand out in performance, reliability, capacity,
and energy efficiency. Among them is its new
RVFF™ (Rotational Vibration Feed Forward)
system, designed to sustain performance in
densely-packed multi-drive systems. The
Barracuda ES.2 drive also boosts reliability
with an industry-best unrecoverable error rate
that is 10 times better than desktop class
drives and a 1.2 million hour Mean Time Between
Failure at full 24 x 7 data availability.
The
Barracuda ES.2 drive family operates at
7,200-rpm spin speeds, delivers average seek
times of 8.5ms, and delivers up to 1TB of
capacity with other models available in 500GB
and 750GB. It includes Seagate’s
industry-leading five-year limited warranty.
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