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NEW DELHI
JANUARY 17, 2007
Seagate Technology introduced the Savvio 15K drive, the new 15K-rpm addition
to the Savvio family of 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise drive
solutions.
The Savvio 15K drive, which Seagate termed in a statement as "the
world's fastest hard drive," provides better performance and reliability
and ensures low power consumption. The drive is suited for a broad range of
mainstream enterprise applications in both large enterprise data centers, and
small and medium businesses.
According to Sherman Black, Sr VP and GM, Seagate Enterprise Compute
Business, "The development of the 2.5-inch Enterprise form factor
represented a new way of thinking. Now, with the added number of performance and
capacity choices offered, many of the leading enterprise system makers are
transitioning from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch form factor enterprise solutions."
The Savvio 15K drive was recently validated as the world's fastest drive
within the latest HP ProLiant family of servers. The drive's features make it
the ideal storage solution for all server platforms. Seagate said that Savvio
achieves the highest reliability rating ever with a 1.6 million hour Mean Time
Between Failure (MTBF).
The move to small form factor enterprise disk drives was driven by data
center requirements for greater storage performance density while focusing on
lowering power consumption and cooling costs.
Seagate pioneered the 2.5-inch platform as the solution to these challenges
and formally announced this move in May 2003. The inclusion of the 15K-rpm model
to the Savvio family of drives marks it as a mainstream offering.
The 15K-rpm Savvio disc drive offers a number of advantages over 15K-rpm
3.5-inch drives including: size (70 percent smaller), weight (1.12 lbs less),
power (30 percent lower), drive seek time (12 percent faster than any other
drive) and reliability (1.6 million hour MTBF). These advantages translate into
system level benefits never before seen in a 15K-rpm drive.
The Seagate Savvio 10K and 15K families of drives are shipping today. Savvio
10K.2 and 15K drives are currently available through several leading OEM
customers. The Savvio 10K.2 drive will launch in the Distribution Channel this
quarter as a replacement product for Savvio 10K.1 and as a transition path from
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