Seagate presents worlds fastest hard drive
Just when you thought you had the best, Seagate Technology has announced the introduction of the world’s fastest hard drive, the Savvio 15K, boldly going where no drive has gone before.
The Savvio 15k, given its name by the 15,000 rpm it spins at, is Seagate’s latest addition to the Savvio family of 2.5 inch Serial attached SCSI drives, and provides the highest drive density while maintaining minimum power consumption.
“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.
This drive, hands down, should break the debate on SCSI versus IDE; at least when it comes to speed. As far as the price, there is no substitute for the good, old-fashioned IDE interface. Seagate hopes to justify the cost by claiming a 1.6 million hour MTBF (mean time between failure) and offering a 5-year warranty on the Savvio 15k; however, MTBF values have been known to be extremely inaccurate and have been called into question among many industries.
“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 Savvio 15K drive’s features include a 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 claimed reliability.
“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.”
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