Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX – News), today announced that its
ground-breaking Savvio 2.5-inch small form factor enterprise hard drives have
achieved unprecedented levels of adoption among leading system suppliers and
solution builders. The rapid adoption rate of this innovative solution marks a
new trend in the enterprise as a shift from the 3.5-inch to the 2.5-inch form
factor accelerates.
‘Enterprise storage customers are juggling
demands for space and power in addition to improved performance and cooling
efficiencies in data centers,’ according to John Rydning, IDC's research manager
for hard disk drives. ‘A growing number of customers are beginning to realize
the benefits of a smaller 2.5-inch form factor enterprise hard disc drive as a
solution to these datacenter challenges.’<\/P>
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Key to building more flexible and competitive systems, Savvio drives are fast
becoming the hard drive of choice for major system suppliers and channel
solution builders. Leading system suppliers including HP, IBM, and Sun are
boosting their systems' efficiency with storage powered by Savvio drives. HP has
standardized its server product line to this 2.5-inch form factor across the
vast majority of its new ProLiant, Integrity & BladeSystem offerings with
compatibility in Storageworks MSA external storage. IBM offers the 2.5-inch
drive in all of its BladeCenter\u00ae servers and includes Savvio drives in the
majority of its newest System x(TM) servers. Sun has adopted 2.5-inch enterprise
class drives across its entire server portfolio, from entry level, to data
center, to blade server product lines.<\/P>
Whether in blade servers, compact 1U, 2U, or larger 3U or 4U servers, or
storage arrays, Savvio drives are spearheading a new era of high-density
enterprise storage. Savvio drives enable cooler-running systems that deliver
higher performance and greater reliability than those based on conventional
3.5-inch 10K-rpm enterprise drives.<\/P>
‘The demand for our new ProLiant G5 Servers and BladeSystem C-Class
introduced this year based on the SFF Serial Attached SCSI drives has been
tremendous,’ said Paul Perez, vice president of Storage, Networking and
Infrastructure, at Hewlett-Packard. ‘Customers clearly understand the
performance & efficiency value propositions for the new SFF Serial Attached
SCSI system; adoption has surpassed our most aggressive expectations.’<\/P>
‘In today's space constrained, power hungry datacenters, clients are
constantly battling how to pack in more computing power without blowing the
energy budget,’ said Alex Yost, director of Product Management for System x,
IBM. ‘IBM's adoption of the Savvio 2.5-inch drives in all our BladeCenter
technologies and in a majority of our System x server line is a direct result of
the drives' small form factor and energy-efficiency benefits. It is one of many
components that enable our servers to provide enterprise class, energy-smart
performance for businesses large and small.’<\/P>