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Seagate Constellation 500GB HDD

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This is a 500GB, 7200 RPM, 2.5 inch hard disk from the Constellation line of

disks from Seagate. It is ideal for enterprises and has features for business

critical storage systems. The drive can be used in nearline environments as it

offers enterprise-class reliability for 24x7 operations.

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And being a 2.5 inch drive it is best suited for space constrained data

centers. The drive also features rotational vibration tolerance that helps to

maintain drive performance even in high-vibration environments (like in a data

center). For business critical applications, the drive failure could be a

potential threat: Seagate Constellation drive has a targeted 1.2 million hours

Mean Time Between Failure rating that ensures robust performance.

The drive also boasts of being energy efficient as it uses PowerChoice

technology that results in lower power consumption during slow or idle periods.

We tested the drive on a Intel Quad Core based machine with 2GB RAM, the same

setup was used for reviewing Hitachi E7K1000 1TB drive (reviewed in Feb'09)

which was also an enterprise class drive.

The Constellation drive gave an average transfer rate of 72.4 MB/sec in HD

Tune benchmark with an access time of 13.7 ms, whereas Hitachi E7K1000 clocked

96.9 MB/sec average transfer rate. The Constellation drive being energy

efficient consumes just 2.9W of power at idle mode while Hitachi E7K1000 drive

consumed 5.2W of power in the same mode. With a smaller form factor and low

power profile, this drive can be used in blade servers as well, besides being

used as high-density nearline storage solution for apps like backup and restore,

video surveillance, medical imaging, etc.

Price: On request (5 year

warranty)



Key Specs: 2.5 inch, 7200 RPM, 32 MB cache, SATA 3.0 Gb/sec interface


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Bottomline:








Considering its small form factor, performance and power

efficiency, this drive is ideal for green data centers.

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