Seagate Unveils Plans for 2.5-Inch Enterprise Disc Drives

Zardon · May 21, 2003, 12:09 AM

Seagate announced a new 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive platform. Systems built around these small enterprise-class disc drives will provide data centers with unparalleled levels of IOPS (input/outputs per second) performance in a smaller system space compared to what's being delivered today. For example, a 2U rack storage array with 2.5-inch drives will be able to outperform today's common 3U rack storage arrays by nearly 140% on an IOPS-per-U basis while providing equal or greater storage capacity.

The enterprise-class 2.5-inch disc drive platform is a result of extensive research into end-user IT challenges and close collaboration with other technology leaders like HP, Intel and Microsoft, and is targeted directly at server and storage consolidation needs. The 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive platform will enable a new era of rack server and storage arrays and blade servers including: 1U rack RAID 5 enterprise servers, storage dense 2U rack storage arrays, and new blade servers capable of new levels of IOPS performance with the highest reliability. The enterprise 2.5-inch disc drive platform will be produced for the current versions of Fibre Channel and SCSI, as well as Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), the latest evolution of SCSI that promises greatly improved performance, reliability and availability, as well as scalability for the growing needs of the enterprise.

Seagate intends to deliver its first enterprise-class solutions based on the 2.5-inch disc drive platform in 2004.

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May 21, 2003, 12:09 AM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	Seagate Unveils Plans for 2.5-Inch Enterprise Disc Drives Seagate announced a new 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive platform. Systems built around these small enterprise-class disc drives will provide data centers with unparalleled levels of IOPS (input/outputs per second) performance in a smaller system space compared to what's being delivered today. For example, a 2U rack storage array with 2.5-inch drives will be able to outperform today's common 3U rack storage arrays by nearly 140% on an IOPS-per-U basis while providing equal or greater storage capacity. The enterprise-class 2.5-inch disc drive platform is a result of extensive research into end-user IT challenges and close collaboration with other technology leaders like HP, Intel and Microsoft, and is targeted directly at server and storage consolidation needs. The 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive platform will enable a new era of rack server and storage arrays and blade servers including: 1U rack RAID 5 enterprise servers, storage dense 2U rack storage arrays, and new blade servers capable of new levels of IOPS performance with the highest reliability. The enterprise 2.5-inch disc drive platform will be produced for the current versions of Fibre Channel and SCSI, as well as Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), the latest evolution of SCSI that promises greatly improved performance, reliability and availability, as well as scalability for the growing needs of the enterprise. Seagate intends to deliver its first enterprise-class solutions based on the 2.5-inch disc drive platform in 2004. [http://www.seagate.com/newsinfo/technology/smallformfactor/index.html]Read here[/url]