Savvio 10K.3: SAS 2.0 & 300 GB Posted on 03/06/2008 at 15:11 by Nicolas
Seagate has launched the Savvio 10K.3, a hard drive in 2" 1/2 format destined for servers. While the 15K and 10K.2 do not surpass 73 GB and 146 GB, respectively, the latest from the world leader in hard drives attains 300 GB with two platters.
Few details were given up until now; besides its rotation speed of 10,000 rpm, we know that it uses the version 2.0 of the SAS interface (Serial Attached SCSI), has a data encryption system and an MTBF of 1.6 million hours. The press release specifies that big OEMs have already received drives in order to evaluate their potential and large scale availability is planned for the second half of the year. Let’s hope that until then that Seagate will reveal a minimum on its performances and power consumption...
Seagate has launched the Savvio 10K.3, a hard drive in 2" 1/2 format destined for servers. While the 15K and 10K.2 do not surpass 73 GB and 146 GB, respectively, the latest from the world leader in hard drives attains 300 GB with two platters.