SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-January 16, 2007 – Seagate Technology
(NYSE:STX) today introduced the world's fastest hard drive – the Savvio 15K
drive, the new 15K-rpm addition to the Savvio family of 2.5-inch Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) enterprise drive solutions. The Savvio 15K drive provides the highest
hard drive performance density and reliability while ensuring ultra-low power
consumption, reducing thermal loads in data centers. With its combination of
benefits that were created for modern storage systems, the Savvio 15K drive is
well-suited for a broad range of mainstream enterprise applications in both
large enterprise data centers and small, medium businesses, that lowers overall
system Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). <\/STRONG><\/P>
The Savvio 15K drive was recently validated as the world's fastest drive
within the latest HP ProLiant family of servers. HP ProLiant servers with 15K
Savvio drives are shipping in volume and are leading the transition of small
form factor drives in mainstream enterprise environments. <\/P>
‘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.’ <\/P>
The Savvio 15K drive's unique combination of features including its 70
percent smaller size, lower power consumption (30 percent lower than any other
15K drive), industry's fastest seek time and the industry's highest reliability,
make it the ideal storage solution for all server platforms. Designed from the
ground up to meet the demanding requirements of enterprise applications, Savvio
achieves the highest reliability rating ever with a 1.6 million hour Mean Time
Between Failure (MTBF). <\/P>
The Industry Shift to the 2.5-inch Enterprise
Standard<\/STRONG> ‘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.’ <\/P>
Savvio Drive Technical Details<\/STRONG> The Savvio 15K drive was built to accommodate a wide range of applications,
from grueling, rapid-fire data access brought forth in transactional
environments to everyday e-mail\/collaboration. The combination of high
performance and reliability enables the use of 20% fewer Savvio 15K drives
within a system to gain the necessary transaction performance, which ultimately
means lower TCO. <\/P>
‘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.’ <\/P>
The move to small 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. Seagate pioneered the
2.5-inch platform as the solution to these challenges and formally announced
this move in May of 2003 with the support of HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and
others. The inclusion of the 15K-rpm model to the Savvio family of drives marks
it as a mainstream offering. <\/P>
The 15K-rpm Savvio disc
drive offers a number of advantages over 15K-rpm 3.5-inch drives including: size
(70% smaller), weight (1.12 lbs less), power (30% lower), drive seek time (12%
faster than any other drive) and reliability (1.6 million hour MTBF). These
advantages translate into system level benefits never before seen in a 15K-rpm
drive. <\/P>