14 DAY TRIAL // We've already covered Seagate's newest series of solid state drives for the enterprise market but they are just part of the company's new offer, as some hard disk drives of very high platter speeds have also been introduced.
Even though it is now well behind Western Digital on the storage market, what with WD buying Hitachi, Seagate is definitely not staying idle.
Its newest batch of product launches is focused on the enterprise market, meaning that the new hard disk drives are optimized, overall, despite the fact that this will add some costs.
That said, the two new lines are known as Savvio 15K.3 and Savvio 10K.5, both of which have a reliability rating of .44% AFR/2 million hours MTBF.
The Savvio 10K.5 (10,000 RPM) are 2.5-inch units of up to 900 GB (900 GB, 600 GB, 450 GB and 300 GB exist) and speeds of 6 Gbps (over SAS) or 4 Gbps on fiber channel interfaces.
Meanwhile, the Savvio 15K.3 have similar sizes, capacities of 300 GB and 146 GB and are aimed at low IT budgets and a wide range of application.
All in all, they are expected to show up in data centers, especially tier 1, mission-critical server and storage systems.
“When we increase the possibility for storage at any point in the world wide web, we increase the possibility for storage at every point in the world wide web,” said John Monroe, a research vice president in Gartner’s Data Center Systems group.
“Media tablets and other smart handheld devices will serve to generate an even greater need for enormous amounts of both high-capacity and high-speed storage in the cloud, which will in turn require diverse new breeds of storage building blocks to manage this explosive and complex data growth in more efficient, reliable and cost-effective ways.”
The Savvio 10K.5 should debut before March is out, while the Savio 15K.3 will follow in the third quarter.