Seagate
has unveiled what it claims to be the world's fastest hard drive, the
Savvio
15K, a 15,000-rpm addition to the Savvio family of 2.5in Serial Attached
SCSI enterprise drives.
The Savvio 15K was recently validated as the world's fastest drive within the
latest
HP
ProLiant family of servers, the drive vendor claimed.
Sherman Black, senior vice president and general manager at Seagate
Enterprise Compute Business, said: "The development of the 2.5in Enterprise form
factor represented a new way of thinking.
"With the added number of performance and capacity choices offered, many
leading enterprise system makers are moving from 3.5in to 2.5in form factor
enterprise solutions."
The move to small form factor enterprise disk drives is being driven by data
centre requirements for greater storage performance density while focusing on
lowering power consumption and cooling costs, according to Black.
The Savvio 15K drive offers a number of advantages over 15,000-rpm 3.5in
drives. It is 70 per cent smaller, 0.5Kg lighter and requires 30 per cent less
power.
The Savvio drive was built to accommodate a range of applications, from
rapid-fire data access in transactional environments to everyday email.
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