Seagate introduced the Savvio 10K.3 hard drive – the world’s highest-capacity, small form factor 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive built for the demands of enterprise servers and storage arrays. The 2.5-inch drive offers 70% lower power and greater than 60% performance density over traditional 3.5-inch drives. The Savvio 10K.3 drive leads the industry with 300GB of capacity, reliability of 1.6 million hours MTBF, and an advanced SAS 2.0 (6Gb/sec data rate) interface.
"The combination of higher capacity and 6Gb SAS on an enterprise-class small form factor disk drive, like the Savvio 10K.3 drive, continues to entice the industry to move from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch based solutions for use in enterprise storage systems and arrays,” said Dave Reinsel, vice president of Storage Research at IDC.
The Savvio 10K.3 is also the world’s first drive to operate at 6Gb/sec transfer rates, which is part of the new SAS 2.0 feature set. Savvio 10K.3 will be offered with self-encrypting FDE technology for increased security. The drive will be available sometime in the second half of 2008.
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