{"id":2468,"date":"2008-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asbis.com\/news\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2023-07-28T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T14:31:26","slug":"seagate-delivers-first-1tb-drive-with-sas-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.asbis.com\/news\/suppliers\/seagate-delivers-first-1tb-drive-with-sas-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Seagate Delivers World&apos;s First 1TB Drive with SAS Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>Seagate has begun worldwide shipment of its 1 terabyte (TB) enterprise-class Barracuda&reg; ES.2 hard drives with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. Applications addressing rich media content and collaborative applications like email can benefit from the average 135% performance boost over SATA-interface drives along with robust enterprise features and native compatibility.<\/STRONG><\/P>&#13;&#10;<P><IMG alt='Seagate Barracuda' hspace='10' align='left' src='\/attach\/get\/20080414074817445431000000.jpg'>&ldquo;The explosion of content in enterprise environments is driving the need for faster data access and bandwidth that Seagate&rsquo;s 1TB Barracuda ES.2 drives can deliver with a <STRONG><A href='http:\/\/www.it4profit.com\/ecatalog\/userend\/shopITProdAsb.jsp?SUPPLIER=701&amp;PATERN=SAS&amp;x=17&amp;y=19'>SAS interface<\/A><\/STRONG>,&rdquo; said <EM>Sherman Black<\/EM>, Seagate senior vice president and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business. &ldquo;SAS dual-port capability with redundancy, improved performance and data integrity make this drive the perfect low-cost\/GB enterprise-ready drive for our customers.&rdquo;<\/P>&#13;&#10;<P>SAS also enables greater system-design and integration flexibility for solution providers who are eager to offer even greater value options to their customers. &ldquo;The higher performance and inherently lower <STRONG>total cost of ownership<\/STRONG> make Barracuda ES.2 drives with SAS a perfect choice for many of our customers,&rdquo; said <EM>Joe Cousins<\/EM>, vice president, Marketing at Bell Microproducts. &ldquo;With the added enterprise features found within SAS all merging into a lower-cost package, we anticipate our customers will be very interested in building and deploying SAS-based systems with Seagate&reg; drives.&rdquo;<\/P>&#13;&#10;<P>The Barracuda ES.2 drive family&rsquo;s robust features stand out in performance, reliability, capacity, and energy efficiency. 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Applications addressing rich media content and collaborative applications like email can benefit from the average 135% performance boost over SATA-interface drives along with robust enterprise features and native compatibility.&#13;&#10;&ldquo;The explosion of content in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suppliers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Seagate Delivers World&amp;apos;s First 1TB Drive with SAS Interface - ASBIS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.asbis.com\/news\/suppliers\/seagate-delivers-first-1tb-drive-with-sas-interface\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seagate Delivers World&amp;apos;s First 1TB Drive with SAS Interface - ASBIS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seagate has begun worldwide shipment of its 1 terabyte (TB) enterprise-class Barracuda&reg; ES.2 hard drives with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. 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