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Seagate Set to Usher in SAS-Based Systems
By
ChannelTimes Staff
International Desk, Apr 10, 2008
Seagate has begun worldwide shipment of its 1 terabyte (TB) enterprise-class Barracuda ES.2 hard drives with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface.
"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, 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 wish to offer even greater value options to their customers.
With the introduction of the Barracuda ES.2 drive, Seagate said that it is first to provide customers with a SAS interface option in addition to its SATA model, which began shipping last year.
"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," said Joe Cousins, vice president-marketing at Bell Microproducts.
For major system providers including HP, SAS offers greater levels of data integrity and performance for business-critical and nearline enterprise environments. 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 manages drive power consumption at all levels of activity.
The Barracuda ES.2 drive family's features include its new RVFF (Rotational Vibration Feed Forward) system, designed to sustain performance in densely-packed multi-drive systems. The drive also boosts reliability with an 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 company said.
The Barracuda ES.2 drives operate at 7,200-rpm spin speeds, delivers average seek times of 8.5 ms, and delivers up to 1TB of capacity. Other models are available in 500 GB and 750 GB. The drives come with Seagate's 5-year limited warranty.
Related Links
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