Seagate Raises the Bar in Enterprise Storage:Unveils Groundbreaking SSD and HDD Solutions

Seagate Technology announced in India, its latest enterprise solutions designed to deliver storage for the widest range of application environments. Joining the industry's most award-winning enterprise lineup, these solutions include: two new members of the Pulsar® Solid State Drive (SSD) family that deliver the ultimate enterprise performance, endurance and reliability; two next-generation Savvio® 15K and 10K hard disk drives (HDD) optimized for a balance of high performance and capacity; and the latest Constellationâ„¢ ES.2 HDD for pure capacity-optimized mass storage needs.

“The surge in storage consumption is being driven not only by the growth of content and use within the enterprise, but also by new applications and devices that directly or indirectly consume enterprise storage,” said Rajesh Khurana, Country Manager — India and SAARC, Seagate Technology. “Seagate's new family of enterprise storage solutions meets the diverse storage needs of these high growth application environments, whether it's fast transactional database servers, bulk storage and archiving, or everything in between.”

“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.”

Pulsar.2 and Pulsar XT.2 — Pure Performance with Enterprise-Class Endurance

Pulsar.2 is the first MLC-enabled, (up to 800GB) SSD from an enterprise HDD vendor delivering the price/performance, data integrity, and endurance needed for performance-hungry enterprise applications. Unlike other MLC SSDs that have been designed for consumer applications and lack the robust data integrity and endurance feature set required for enterprise applications, Pulsar. 2 has been designed from the ground up for the enterprise. It has the intelligence to automatically detect and correct a multitude of data errors than can occur during normal drive operations to deliver the highest levels of enterprise-class data integrity and endurance. By enabling MLC NAND technology for the enterprise, this drive addresses the market concerns on SSD cost and endurance and will enable adoption of SSDs in the enterprise. Pulsar.2 supports both native 6Gb/s SAS and SATA 6Gb/s interfaces.

Pulsar XT.2 is a 2.5-inch, SLC-based, native 6Gb/s SAS, up to 400GB enterprise SSD from Seagate, the world leader in enterprise storage. Pulsar XT.2 delivers the highest levels of consistent performance, data integrity, and drive endurance for the most demanding enterprise environments. Pulsar XT.2 is the fastest drive in the Seagate portfolio, with sustainable random reads at 48K and writes at 22K IOPS and sequential reads at 360MB/sec and writes at 300MB/sec. Pulsar XT.2 is optimized for real world, complex, mixed workloads typical of enterprise environments.

Both Pulsar.2 and Pulsar XT.2 leverage Seagate's 30-year leadership in meeting enterprise customer expectations in product development, qualification, fulfillment and ongoing support on a worldwide basis. Over 200 man-years of development went into the 2nd-generation Pulsar SSD products and enterprise reliability is verified by a team with over 1,500 years of experience in the storage industry. And with a 0.44% AFR and 2 million hour MTBF rating, Pulsar XT.2 and Pulsar.2 provide the storage reliability that enterprise data centers can count on. Pulsar XT.2 is currently shipping to OEMs. Both Pulsar XT.2 and Pulsar.2 will be generally available to the channel beginning Q2 of this year.

Savvio 15K.3 and Savvio 10K.5 — Greater IT Storage Efficiency

Seagate's latest-generation Savvio 2.5-inch small form factor enterprise class HDDs are built to deliver high performance, reliability, and capacity for tier 1, mission critical server and storage systems. The 2.5-inch enterprise small form factor has transitioned to becoming the form factor of choice over 3.5-inch, with Savvio drives further maximizing data center capabilities without increasing footprint. By unifying an optimal small form factor size with higher performance and greater capacity and use of the latest 6Gb SAS interface, Savvio HDDs ultimately help provide IT data centers with improved storage efficiency.

Savvio 10K.5 delivers the world's highest capacity in a 2.5-inch mission critical HDD with up to 900GB, enabling easier and more flexible storage upgrades to create high capacity, high performance systems. As the only 2.5-inch 10K-rpm drive family to provide four capacity points (900GB, 600GB, 450GB, 300GB) on a single platform, and a choice of 6Gb/s SAS or 4Gb Fibre Channel interfaces, Savvio 10K.5 delivers the scalability and versatility that OEMs, system builders, and end users need.

Savvio 15K.3 is the highest performing HDD available and is optimized for tier 1 storage applications. With capacities available at 300GB and 146GB, Savvio 15K.3 is well-suited for performance-oriented systems that can remain cost-effective to IT budgets and fit a wide range of applications.

Savvio 10K.5 and Savvio 15K.3 both deliver a record reliability rating of .44% AFR/2 million hours MTBF and include a 5-year warranty. They also feature Protection Information for enhanced data integrity and a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option for the protection of data-at-rest. Both Savvio models are currently shipping to OEMs, with channel availability for Savvio 10K.5 beginning Q1 and Savvio 15K.3 to follow in Q2.

Constellation ES.2 — Highest Capacity Enterprise Drive from the Nearline Market Leader

The new Constellation ES.2 packs the highest capacity into an enterprise-class drive, providing the efficiencies demanded by capacity-intensive 24/7 applications, making it ideal for low cost-per-GB highly-valued business storage solutions. With massive 3TB capacities, Constellation ES.2 powers both server and bulk storage solutions, maximizing the storage footprint by supporting up to 114TB per square foot.

Constellation ES.2 also introduces a new RAID Rebuildâ„¢ feature for enterprise HDDs. With large capacity drives comes longer RAID rebuild times, but with Seagate's new RAID Rebuildâ„¢ development platform, customers can significantly reduce hours of lost productivity during RAID rebuilds.

Constellation ES.2 leverages Seagate's unparalleled expertise in enterprise technology by delivering the highest capacity, fifth-generation 3.5-inch drive at the lowest operating power, helping to maximize energy efficiency in the data center. Building on Seagate's enterprise leadership with its 3rd generation SAS interface, Constellation ES.2 also features the SAS-based Protection Information feature for end-to-end data protection, Self-Encrypted Drive (SED) option for protecting data-at-rest, best-in-class Rotational Vibration Feed Forward (RVFF) technology that sustains performance when placed in closely-packed multi-drive system environments, and PowerChoice® on-demand low power options that keeps drives and systems running cool.

Constellation ES.2 is offered in both 6Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) and 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interfaces. It is currently shipping to OEMs and will be available in the channel Q2 this year.