SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 16 -- Seagate Technology introduced
the world's fastest hard drive -- 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
provides the highest hard drive performance density and reliability
while ensuring ultra-low power consumption, reducing thermal loads
in data centers. With its combination of benefits that were created
for modern storage systems, the Savvio 15K drive is well-suited for
a broad range of mainstream enterprise applications in both large
enterprise data centers and small, medium businesses, that lowers
overall system Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
"Seagate is committed to delivering solutions that will meet the
needs of today's demanding IT environment, and no product
demonstrates this better than the Savvio 15K drive," said Sherman
Black, senior vice president and general manager, 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. HP ProLiant
servers with 15K Savvio drives are shipping in volume and are
leading the transition of small form factor drives in mainstream
enterprise environments.
"The Seagate Savvio 15K drives running in HP ProLiant servers and
storage devices delivered record-breaking benchmarks at nearly 50
percent lower cost- per-transaction," said Paul Perez, vice
president, Storage, Networks and Infrastructure, HP. "The
performance, reliability and power consumption benefits of
deploying 2.5-inch Small Form Factor 15K drives are clear, and HP
continues to drive the industry transition to them as the principal
storage platform inside the HP ProLiant and BladeSystem
solutions."
The Savvio 15K drive's unique combination of features including its
70 percent smaller size, lower power consumption (30 percent lower
than any other 15K drive), industry's fastest seek time and the
industry's highest reliability, make it the ideal storage solution
for all server platforms. Designed from the ground up to meet the
demanding requirements of enterprise applications, Savvio achieves
the highest reliability rating ever with a 1.6 million hour Mean
Time Between Failure (MTBF).
The Industry Shift to the 2.5-inch Enterprise Standard
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 of 2003 with the
support of HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and others. The inclusion of
the 15K-rpm model to the Savvio family of drives marks it as a
mainstream offering.
"The trend in IT is to scale down the physical size of components
while scaling up capacity and performance," said John Rydning,
IDC's research manager for hard disk drives. "Seagate's first
generation 2.5-inch 15K-rpm HDD is fitting with this trend,
delivering fast I/O performance in a small package to meet the
needs of demanding server applications."
Savvio Drive Technical Details
The 15K-rpm Savvio disc drive offers a number of advantages over
15K-rpm 3.5-inch drives including: size (70% smaller), weight (1.12
lbs less), power (30% lower), drive seek time (12% 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 Savvio 15K drive was built to accommodate a wide range of
applications, from grueling, rapid-fire data access brought forth
in transactional environments to everyday e-mail/collaboration. The
combination of high performance and reliability enables the use of
20% fewer Savvio 15K drives within a system to gain the necessary
transaction performance, which ultimately means lower TCO.
Savvio Drive Availability
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 Cheetah 10K.7
drives. The Savvio 10K.2 drive provides the highest capacity
choices to the family with up to 146GB, while the Savvio 15K.1
drive is ideal for the most transaction-intensive
applications.
HP is first to qualify and ship systems with Savvio 15K drives.
Savvio 15K drives ship in the SAS interface at 36GB and 73GB
capacities, the ideal sizes to meet the IOPS-intensive performance
requirements of enterprise server environments. For more
information about Savvio drives, in addition to Seagate's other
enterprise storage solutions, visit www.seagate.com