Seagate Technology, a company specializing in hard disk drives and storage solutions, reportedly introduced a new hard drive – Savvio 15K.2 HDD, pictured below right – to its Savvio family of 2.5-inch SAS (News - Alert) 2.0 enterprise solutions.

 

The15K.2 HDD, with 15K-rpm capability, is expected to deliver the industry’s highest hard drive performance and reliability, Seagate claims.

 

According to Sherman Black, a senior vice president at Seagate, server and storage array requirements in the enterprise today are especially focused on lowering power and cooling costs, satisfying growing application performance needs and meeting government and industry compliance regulations.

 

“The Savvio 15K.2 drive and our Unified Storage architecture, address these needs head-on, by providing IT departments with a best-in-class foundation that reduces storage complexity, costs, and provides peace of mind,” Black said.

 

The product uses Advanced Encryption Standard government-grade encryption, enabling protection of information throughout a drive’s lifecycle and especially upon retirement when the drive leaves the data center. With this feature, Savvio 15K.2 HDD has become the first small form factor 15K enterprise self-encrypting drive that uses AES, according to Seagate.

 

With Seagate’s onboard PowerTrim technology, Savvio 15K.2 drives reduce power consumption up to 70 percent over comparable 3.5-inch 15,000-rpm drives, the company said.

 

The Savvio 15K.2, pictured right, hard drive is part of Seagate’s new Unified Storage architecture, converging disk drive interfaces, form factors, and security features into a common best-of-breed platform for simple storage solutions. Also, Savvio 15K.2 HDD is the only 2nd generation 2.5-inch 15,000-rpm drive backed with field-proven, enterprise-grade reliability.

 

To enable larger topologies, 100 percent faster data throughput and higher signal strength over greater distances, Savvio 15K.2 HDD is offered in the server capacity sweet spots of 146GB and 73GB with a SAS 2.0 interface running at 6Gb/s speeds.  This makes them ideal for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) configurations, providing up to 115 percent greater system-level performance when compared to systems based on 3.5-inch server-class drives.

 

Ron Noblett, a vice president at HP, said Seagate’s Savvio 15K.2 drives can be paired with HP ProLiant to provide its customers a high-performance solution to meet demanding business application needs.

 

“The launch of these drives will help Dell (News - Alert) PowerEdge server and PowerVault storage customers realize higher density, increased performance and a reduced power envelope compared to similar 3.5-inch solutions,” said Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager for Dell’s Storage Business. “This helps our customers get improved time to data without being penalized with lower capacity or higher electric bills.”