Seagate intros Savvio 10K.3

To meet the growing demand for higher-capacity, more efficient enterprise
storage systems, Seagate introduced the Savvio 10K.3 hard drive-a 2.5-inch
enterprise hard drive built for the demands of enterprise servers and storage
arrays. This latest generation of 2.5-inch drive offers 70 percent lower power
and greater than 60 percent performance density over traditional 3.5-inch
drives. As the only 10K-rpm 2.5-inch enterprise design backed by two prior
generations of field-proven reliability, 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. Savvio 10K.3 drive is also the
industry's first 2.5-inch self-encryp­ting enter­prise drive with
government-grade Full Disk Encryption (FDE) data protection.

“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 to 2.5-inch based solutions for use in enterprise
storage systems and arrays. IDC predicts that shipments of small form factor
enterprise drives into enterprise solutions will outnumber 3.5-inch enterprise
drive shipments by 2010,” said Dave Reinsel, VP-Storage Research, IDC.

Savvio 10K.3 drive was built to accommodate a wide range of mainstream
enterprise storage appli­cations, where both high capacity and low power
consumption are critical requirements within an IT organization.

“Seagate was the pioneer of the 2.5-inch form factor enterprise standard,
stem­ming from work with customers to better under­stand data center
require­ments, including the need for greater storage perfor­mance density while
continuing to focus on reducing power consump­tion and cooling costs,” said
Sherman Black, Senior VP and GM, Seagate Enter­prise Compute Business.
“The­Savvio 10K and 15K families have evolved into becoming the most
widely-adopted 2.5-inch enterprise drive families throughout the enterprise.
Now, with the introduction of the 300GB Savvio 10K.3 drive, more versatile
storage systems can be built based upon this sweet-spot capacity.

Major OEM evaluations of the Savvio 10K.3 drive have begun. General product
availability is planned for the second half of calendar year 2008.