Entries tagged as ‘15K’
November 4, 2008 · 1 Comment
Savvio is the world’s fastest drive - and uses up to 75% less power than 3.5″ drives
Seagate has rolled out a new generation of Savvio 2.5″ enterprise drives. They have better capacity, performance and power efficiency, of course. But the really big news? These drives signal the performance/capacity/power crossover point between 3.5″ and 2.5″ drives.
So for a 24-drive 2.5″ 10K rpm storage system vs. a 12-drive 3.5″ 15K rpm storage system:
- Capacity is now the same (up to 300GB for 2.5″, up to 600GB for 3.5″)
- Performance is 60% higher
- Power consumption is 20% lower
Until now, 2.5″ drives had won over the server market but not the storage system market. Lower power 2.5″ drives didn’t make up for the cumulative power impact of packing twice as many drives into a single system. And 2.5″ capacities peaked at 147GB.
No longer! Expect to see accelerated adoption of 2.5″ into high performance storage systems.
Categories: Datacenter · Products · Storage Systems
Tagged: 10K rpm, 15K, 2.5", 3.5", performance, power consumption, Savvio
Seagate and SAS/SATA flexibility get the nod for their Big Guns of Business platform
When it comes to storage, Tom’s Hardware gets it.
It’s not because they chose Seagate’s Cheetah 15K SAS and Barracuda ES SATA drives for their Big Guns of Business workstation platform. It’s that they understand the truly revolutionary benefits of SAS and SATA in combination.
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is taking workstations (and servers, and storage systems) where SCSI never could because of native mix-and-match compatibility with SATA.
That means you can have screamin’ SAS, massive SATA, or both. And change it up tomorrow if you want.
More and more system vendors are getting this. Strongly consider SAS-based systems from here on out.
Categories: Business Solutions · Products
Tagged: 15K, Barracuda ES, Cheetah, SAS, SATA, SCSI, Tom's Hardware
Cool, but encryption is a kindler and gentler way to retire disk drives
Blocks and Files highlighted this very physical solution to a data management problem: how to be sure sensitive data on retired disk drives never again sees the light of day. It’s a do-it-yourself version of industrial disk crushers.
Verity’s quite excited about the Hard Drive Destroyer, and I know it fills a desperate need. But it’s not very resource-efficient nor environmentally friendly. That’s a perfectly good drive! Can’t someone else use it?
The renewable alternative: self-encrypting hard drives like the Momentus FDE and BlackArmor. When it’s time to retire, throw away the AES-grade encryption key, and Poof! - what was once written will never be seen again. Certifiably so.
Momentus FDE is a notebook drive. The first enterprise FDE drive will be the Seagate Cheetah 15K . Stay tuned.
Who’s destroying drives out there? Anyone willing to admit they’re ignoring this problem and reusing drives?
Categories: Data Security · Digital Home · Laptop PC
Tagged: 15K, BlackArmor, Cheetah, FDE, Hard Drive Destroyer, Momentus, Verity
Compellent’s success is about more than their technology
My first clue that Compellent is different came in the lobby bathroom. In their LEED-certified corporate HQ (the first in Minnesota), the urinals use no water.
Compellent is getting rave reviews from their fast-growing customer base, not just for their storage solution, but also for their “thin provisioning” approach to delivering and supporting their solutions. I had an eye-opening visit to Compellent and talked with Larry Aszmann, their CTO.
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Categories: Company Profiles · Datacenter · Storage Systems
Tagged: 10K, 15K, Compellent, FC, Larry Aszmann, SATA, Storage Manager
2.5″ enterprise drives reduce storage system power
Conventional wisdom is that 2.5″ enterprise drives are great for servers, but need more capacity to be viable in storage systems. Problem is, conventional wisdom didn’t account for the vast quantities of these systems packed into an internet data center.
Mario Apicella, InfoWorld’s Storage Advisor, takes a look at Infortrend’s B12 storage system and says the future is now for 2.5″ SAS drives.
Why? Less real estate, obviously. But also much lower power for the same performance: 2.6 Watts less per drive than same-capacity 3.5″ drives. And dramatically less weight to ship, move around and pile on floors.
Re-engineering current systems for smaller-format drives is the easiest, most effective way to make storage more energy friendly.
Here’s more info on the Savvio 2.5″ 15K SAS drive Mario referred to in his post.
Who’s using 2.5″ SAS today? Servers and/or storage. What’s your experience?
Categories: Products · Random · Storage Systems
Tagged: 15K, 2.5", EonStor, Infortrend, InfoWorld, Mario Apicella, SAS, Savvio, Storage Advisor
January 10, 2008 · 1 Comment
Enterprise drives now offer performance and capacity
Back in the day, high performance enterprise drives were all about performance, with little capacity to speak of. The performance is still there in spades, as you can see in this review. But maximum capacity has gone through the roof.
This is yet another sign of the sea change in business use of information, exponentially increasing content volume and capacity requirements for even the most rigorous enterprise applications.
By the way, Seagate has launched the next generation of these high capacity, high performance drives. The Cheetah 15K.6 ships with up to 450GB (almost a half terabyte!), and it’s faster yet.
Categories: Datacenter · Products
Tagged: 15K, 300GB, 450GB, Cheetah, Hitachi, SAS, Seagate, storage
