Tuesday, February 9th 2010
Seagate Ships World's Highest-Capacity, Most Reliable SFF Enterprise HDDs
Seagate Ships World's Highest-Capacity, Most Reliable Small Form Factor Enterprise Drive: The Savvio 10K.4 Hard Drive Enterprise storage systems can now move to 600GB capacity, 2 million hour MTBF solution Seagate today announced worldwide shipments of its Savvio 10K.4 hard disk drive (HDD), the world's highest-capacity and most reliable 2.5-inch enterprise-class drive. Built for the demands of enterprise servers and to enable new levels of data density in external storage arrays, Savvio 10K.4 doubles the capacity of its nearest competitor to 600GB. It is also the first HDD to achieve an unprecedented 2 million hours Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) reliability rating.
As the industry's only fourth generation, field-proven, 2.5-inch HDD designed for the enterprise, Savvio 10K.4 also features Protection Information for enhanced protection of data-in-flight, a self-encrypting drive (SED) option for the ultimate protection of sensitive data-at-rest and PowerChoice, which allows the Savvio 10K.4 hard drive to deliver improved power savings during idle.
"Our customers face challenging storage needs requiring the most efficient use of space and power while maintaining the highest performance possible," said Howard Shoobe, senior manager, Dell Storage Product Management. "The new 2.5-inch 10K-rpm 600GB capacity point allows a doubling of capacity within the same rack space of current 3.5-inch 15K 600GB drives while increasing overall system-level performance and decreasing power usage."
The combined features of Savvio 10K.4 deliver greater overall value and can reduce the total cost of ownership to IT organizations and administrators eager to optimize their data center's power and performance efficiency. Leveraging the enterprise 2.5-inch small form factor as its platform, Savvio 10K.4 serves as a powerful storage building block when compared to 3.5-inch based systems.
"A transition to 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDDs by server and storage system OEMs is building momentum," said John Rydning, IDC's research director for hard disk drives. "There continues to be nearly insatiable demand for digital content accessed via numerous applications and devices, content that is increasingly delivered from storage systems equipped with high capacity enterprise-class HDDs such as Seagate's Savvio 10K.4."
For more information about Savvio 10K.4, visit this page.
As the industry's only fourth generation, field-proven, 2.5-inch HDD designed for the enterprise, Savvio 10K.4 also features Protection Information for enhanced protection of data-in-flight, a self-encrypting drive (SED) option for the ultimate protection of sensitive data-at-rest and PowerChoice, which allows the Savvio 10K.4 hard drive to deliver improved power savings during idle.
The combined features of Savvio 10K.4 deliver greater overall value and can reduce the total cost of ownership to IT organizations and administrators eager to optimize their data center's power and performance efficiency. Leveraging the enterprise 2.5-inch small form factor as its platform, Savvio 10K.4 serves as a powerful storage building block when compared to 3.5-inch based systems.
"A transition to 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDDs by server and storage system OEMs is building momentum," said John Rydning, IDC's research director for hard disk drives. "There continues to be nearly insatiable demand for digital content accessed via numerous applications and devices, content that is increasingly delivered from storage systems equipped with high capacity enterprise-class HDDs such as Seagate's Savvio 10K.4."
For more information about Savvio 10K.4, visit this page.
27 Comments on Seagate Ships World's Highest-Capacity, Most Reliable SFF Enterprise HDDs
After that, WD has the S25. 150/300GB, SAS 6Gb/s. Hasn't been available for very long.
Toshiba acquired Fujistu's hard drive division last year and got a 300GB SAS 6Gb/s drive out of it.
U have to be kidding
1$ per GB
there was a mess up with some firmware last year but no biggy.
It's a 2.5 inch, technologically advanced drive. With it's capable command quote chip in it and speed, VelociRaptor is the best SATA drive hands down. In every way. It read/writes over 105, 110 anytime, it's silent, it's cool working, and most importantly, it's 10.000 RPM. It accesses stuff faster then any other SATA drive while doing those. You can't say anything bad about it. Maybe only it's price. But other then that, NO.
That's not the topic anyway. Guys, about the Seagate drives failing...
Look at this thread forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=112490
I won't comment on all those Newegg reviews about Barracuda 7200.12s. Because I didn't have any exp with them. But I'm gonna tell you my story about a 7200.11.
I had a 500 GB one, I've bought it before people started talking about Seagate's 7200.11 bullcrap. I used it for like 1.5 years. %95-98 of the time, it worked well. But on the other period, the drive gave me bluescreens and stuff like that. I always saved my butt by writing off a new boot sector&MBR or changing SATA controllers until that time came. Then it started screwing itself up. The drive filled itself with bad sectors for no reason. And it was always locking up my system. Thank God I had my back-ups. I knew it was coming. I saw one reallocated sector a year before that. And I guessed it. One night, while I was playing F.E.A.R, it locked up completely and never came back.
I went to a data center, with the hopes of saving not my files, but all of my Windows settings and installed programs. The guy plugged in the screwed up harddisk to PC-3000 and Salvation Data. Those are data recovery cards in case you don't know. He managed to start up the drive but we saw that everything was gone. All is left was the Windows folder and documents and settings and some other stuff...
Guess what? Data recovery guy showed me the shelf over us. It was full of failed Barracuda 7200.11 drives. And he told me that he totally tried to recover those series of drives in the past year. Nearly all of the drives he had on that shelf were 7200.11s.
While I was doing some research about those drives on the net, I also saw everyone talking crap about Barracuda 7200.11, like how they keep on failing.
Long before all these happened, I had a Barracuda 7200.7 Plus and used for 3 years without any issues despite using it heavily. Now I don't know about Seagate's other drives but, BARRACUDA 7200.11S ARE UNRELIABLE AND CRAP. Moral of story.
"SSD's suck I have a HDD that spews goddamn lava"
Anyway newegg results are biased people only usually post if it didn't work. Take for example my perfectly functioning carpet, I don't post saying how awesome it is. Anyway I think each manufacturer has their ups and downs. I've had 3 samsung F1's fail on me but my F3 has outlasted all three of them and is never off. I've also got a quantum fireball and a seagate barracuda from a good few years ago that still work fine.
My no 1 bad experience drive is Samsungs.
Seagate WAS #1 for reliability - but once things got close to 1TB (and the .11's got released) their reliability went downhill. Hell, i have two .11's which are problem free.. but my friends have had many of them die horribly.
That said, its not like all of em are dying - just some here and there. Considering how few had died on me over the years, its putting them back on par with the other brands for reliability - not below them.
(samsung is still my favourite these days, far less issues overall with 1TB+ drives)