Seagate’s savvy “Savvio” – world’s fastest, greenest enterprise hard drive

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Thursday, 06 November 2008 09:31

IT Industry - Market

Sherman Black, the senior vice president of Marketing and Strategy in the Core Products Group at Seagate said: “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.

“The Savvio 15K.2 drive and our Unified Storage architecture, address these needs head-on, by providing IT departments with a best-in-class foundation that reduces storage complexity, costs, and provides peace of mind,” concluded Black.

Ron Noblett, the vice president of the Shared Engineering Services division of Industry Standard Servers at HP said: “Customers can lower risk and costs through the reduced power consumption, high performance and data availability 2.5-inch small form factor hard drives offer.

“By pairing the industry’s leading x86 platform - HP ProLiant – with Seagate’s Savvio 15K.2 drives, customers have access to a high-performance solution to meet their demanding business application needs.”

And given the big competition between Dell and HP, it’s no surprise to discover a quote from a Dell executive, too, with Darren Thomas the vice president and general manager for Dell’s Storage Business saying: “The launch of these drives will help Dell PowerEdge server and PowerVault storage customers realize higher density, increased performance and a reduced power envelope compared to similar 3.5-inch solutions.

“This helps our customers get improved time to data without being penalized with lower capacity or higher electric bills.”
 
So, what is Seagate’s “Unified Storage architecture”?

Seagate explains that “historically, the variety of drive interfaces, form factors and now, security solutions, can add complexity and increase costs for both IT professionals and OEMs.

“Making the wrong choice today creates storage islands in the data centre with no easy path for upgrades – further complicating an already complex environment. The Seagate Unified Storage architecture converges best-of-breed technologies (Serial Attached SCSI, Small Form Factor and Self-Encrypting Drives) into a foundation for powerful yet simple storage that boosts business and operational efficiency while reducing cost and complexity.

“The Seagate Unified Storage architecture delivers a storage foundation for companies that are proactively ensuring the long-term sustainability of their business through best-in-class IT practices. Companies will avoid the risk of impacting their own product quality, competitiveness, or profitability when their storage system infrastructure and data centre footprint is optimized across power, cooling and performance density. 

“Because the role of small form factor drives are important to the long term efficiency and sustainability of any data centre enterprise, Seagate will be extending this component into all tiers of its Unified Storage architecture in the future.”

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