Becomes the first major supplier to offer a 2.5″ SAS storage system
Dell uncharacteristically took the role of technology leader and launched the MD1120, a direct-attach storage system with 2.5″ SAS drives for their PowerEdge servers (thanks Blocks and Files). It’s likely that their major competitors (and others) will follow with their own announcements in the near future.
Why 2.5″ SAS?
Make no mistake - they may be small, but they are the cream of the crop. Fastest (for 10K rpm), most reliable, highest data integrity. Oh - and they use less space and a lot less power than 3.5″ drives.
Don’t confuse 2.5″ SAS drives with notebook drives. They’re similar in size, but that’s about the only thing they have in common.
The beginning of the end for 3.5″ enterprise drives
The only fatal flaw for 2.5″ and storage has been capacity. These drives are already the standard for servers, but storage system makers couldn’t make the numbers work with only 147GB per drive.
It looks like 300GB may be the tipping point. Seagate recently launched the first 300GB 2.5″ SAS drive, the Savvio 10K.3.
What’s your 2.5″ storage plan? Is it time?
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Dell on a tear with servers and storage « Storage Effect // June 20, 2008 at 8:12 am
[...] to the server success their Equallogic acquisition and an aggressive move into 2.5″ SAS storage, and Dell is looking well positioned in the fast-growing SMB [...]
SATA drives may have peaked in the enterprise « Storage Effect // June 23, 2008 at 7:52 am
[...] SAS: 2.5″ SAS drives, rapidly replacing 3.5″ SCSI, FC and SAS [...]
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