Seagate's new green hard drive

Seagate Technology has introduced a green hard drive the Savvio 15K.2 HDD,
the new 15K-rpm addition to the Savvio range of 2.5-inch SAS 2.0 enterprise
solutions. The Savvio 15K.2 hard drive and the Savvio 10K.3 hard drive are both
part of Seagate's new Unified Storage architecture, which converges disk drive
interfaces, form factors, and security features into a common platform for
simple storage solutions.

The Savvio 15K.2 HDD is offered in the server capacity of 146GB and 73GB with
a SAS 2.0 interface running at 6Gbps speeds. Savvio 15K.2 hard drives are good
for RAID configurations, and provide up to 115 percent more system-level
performance. In addition, the Savvio 15K.2 HDD is the only 2nd generation
2.5-inch 15,000-rpm drive backed with field-proven, enterprise-grade
reliability. It is also the first small form factor 15K enterprise
self-encrypting drive that uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
government-grade encryption, enabling protection of information throughout a
drive's lifecycle and especially upon retirement when the drive leaves the data
center.

"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,"
said Sherman Black, Senior VP, Marketing and Strategy, Core Products Group,
Seagate Technology LLC.