Seagate Nytro XF1230 6Gb SATA SSD

Seagate Technology plc announced the Nytro XF1230 SATA SSD, an energy-efficient drive designed to meet the performance and reliability requirements of cloud data centers.

It features a 6Gb/s interface, making it easy to deploy in existing storage infrastructures. Optimized for read-centric databases and workloads, it provides random access performance of 98,000 IO/s, equivalent to the performance of 200 HDDs, but for a fraction of the power and cost.

Additionally, the drive offers enterprise reliability, with the level of protection needed in today’s cloud environments, including a power loss data protection circuit to prevent data loss in the event of a power disruption.

“SSDs in enterprise data centers provide extremely fast data access in a small footprint, while consuming very little energy. No SSD in its class does this better than Seagate’s latest addition to the Nytro product line,” said Brett Pemble, Seagate’s GM and VP of SSD products. “This is a critical addition to our growing SSD portfolio and an answer to what our enterprise customers have been asking for: a highly reliable, very low-latency SATA SSD that’s also energy efficient. It also means more people get more value from more data for lower cost.”

The Nytro XF1230 SATA SSD is energy efficient, with a power demand that tops out at 4.8 watts at maximum supported capacity – markedly lower than competing solutions that can consume double the power per drive, overloading the already-strained power budgets of today’s data centers. This low power demand is important given cloud data centers often have applications that trigger continuous active workloads through frequent storage access.

Available in 1,920GB, 960GB, 480GB and 240GB user storage capacities, the Nytro XF1230 SATA SSD will ship to channel partners next month.