Seagate launches "fastest" small form factor 15K HDD

Stan Beer
Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:27

Your IT - Home IT

Hard drive manufacturer, Seagate Technology, has unveiled what it claims is the world's fastest hard drive. The Savvio 15K drive, comes in a small 2.5-inch form factor and spins at 15K rpm.

Seagate is pitching the new drive at business space, from small firms to large enterprises. According to Seagate, the Savvio 15K drive's unique combination of features including its 70% smaller size, lower power consumption, industry's fastest seek time and the industry's highest reliability, make it the ideal storage solution for all server platforms.

"Seagate is committed to delivering solutions that will meet the needs of today's demanding IT environment, and no product demonstrates this better than the Savvio 15K drive," said Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. "The development of the 2.5-inch Enterprise form factor represented a new way of thinking. Now, with the added number of performance and capacity choices offered, many of the leading enterprise system makers are transitioning from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch form factor enterprise solutions.

"The Seagate Savvio 15K drives running in HP ProLiant servers and storage devices delivered record-breaking benchmarks at nearly 50 percent lower cost- per-transaction," said Paul Perez, vice president, Storage, Networks and Infrastructure, HP. "The performance, reliability and power consumption benefits of deploying 2.5-inch Small Form Factor 15K drives are clear, and HP continues to drive the industry transition to them as the principal storage platform inside the HP ProLiant and BladeSystem solutions."

According to Seagate, the move from 3.5 inch drives to small 2.5 inch form factor enterprise disk drives was driven by data center requirements for greater storage performance density while focusing on lowering power consumption and cooling costs.

"The trend in IT is to scale down the physical size of components while scaling up capacity and performance," said John Rydning, IDC's research manager for hard disk drives. "Seagate's first generation 2.5-inch 15K-rpm HDD is fitting with this trend, delivering fast I/O performance in a small package to meet the needs of demanding server applications."