Seagate’s new green hard drive

MUMBAI, INDIA: The Savvio 15K.2 hard drive and Seagate Technology has introduced a green hard drive the Savvio 15K.2 HDD, the new 15K-rpm addition to the Savvio range of 2.5-inch SAS 2.0 enterprise solutions.

The Savvio 10K.3 hard drive are both part of Seagate’s new Unified Storage architecture, which converges disk drive interfaces, form factors, and security, features into a common platform for simple storage solutions. Seagate’s Unified Storage architecture and the Savvio hard drive family improve manageability, integration, security and performance benefits for IT departments while ensuring business continuity.

The Savvio 15K.2 HDD is offered in the server capacity of 146GB and 73GB with a SAS 2.0 interface running at 6Gbps speeds. Savvio 15K.2 hard drives are good for RAID configurations, and provide up to 115 percent more system-level performance as compared to systems based on 3.5-inch server-class drives.

In addition, the Savvio 15K.2 HDD is the only 2nd generation 2.5-inch 15,000-rpm drive backed with field-proven, enterprise-grade reliability. 

It is also the first small form factor 15K enterprise self-encrypting drive that uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) government-grade encryption, enabling protection of information throughout a drive’s lifecycle and especially upon retirement when the drive leaves the data center.

“Server and storage array requirements in the enterprise today are especially focused on lowering power and cooling costs; satisfying growing application performance needs; and meeting government and industry compliance regulations,” said Sherman Black, Senior VP, Marketing and Strategy, Core Products Group, Seagate Technology LLC.

“The Savvio 15K.2 drive and our Unified Storage architecture, address these needs head-on, by providing IT departments with a best-in-class foundation that reduces storage complexity, costs, and provides peace of mind,” he added.