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Seagate Shipping 2TB HDD With 6Gb SAS

Record capacity for an enterprise unit, but is it really one?

Seagate Technology LLC is now shipping its 3.5-inch Constellation ES drive, the industry’s first 2TB enterprise-class drives featuring 6Gb SAS, to customers worldwide.

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Designed specifically for multi-drive nearline storage environments, the Constellation ES drive has been qualified by leading enterprise OEMs and system builders who demand storage solutions of the highest capacities with increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security that their customers demand. The Constellation ES drive leverages Seagate’s 30 years of leadership in meeting large enterprise customer needs in product development, qualification, and support.

The fourth-generation, 3.5-inch Seagate Constellation ES drive family for 7200-RPM enterprise environments enables cost-effective, highly efficient storage with capacities of 500GB, 1TB and 2TB. Supporting up to 76TB per square foot, it offers best-in-class reliability, leading 6Gb/s SAS or SATA 3Gb/s performance, PowerChoice optimized power and cooling technology, and a government-grade security option – all backed by Seagate.

Nearline is the fastest growing segment in enterprise storage and Seagate is committed to meeting the market demands of its OEM and system integrator partners in this space,” said Carla Kennedy, vice president, Seagate Enterprise Product Line Management. “Seagate’s leadership in technology development, volume manufacturing and supply chain execution has resulted in an exemplary next-generation nearline solution. The Constellation ES drive tackles the concerns of shrinking IT budgets, floor space constraints and energy consumption, efficiently and cost-effectively.”

Our customers face challenges requiring the cost-effective use of space while maintaining performance and reliability,” said Howard Shoobe, senior manager, Storage Product Management, Dell. “This new nearline drive provides twice the capacity of previous drives with the performance and the robust design of SAS while maintaining best value in terms of dollar-per-gigabyte.”

GreenBytes has developed next generation storage solutions that offer energy efficiency, high-performance, ease-of-use and scalability, all in a cost-effective package that addresses the sustainable needs of today’s IT,” said Bob Petrocelli, chief executive officer of GreenBytes. “Seagate’s Constellation hard drives are integral to the reliability of our world-class GB-X Series of inline deduplication storage appliances.”

Rorke Data’s HD video and 3D film post production customers need both the increased capacity and the 6Gb/s SAS performance of the Constellation ES drives to meet their growing needs, especially in the world of 3D. Our Galaxy Aurora RAID systems take full advantage of the high-capacity Constellation ES drive by packing 72TB in under 9 inches of rack space while delivering sustained transfer rates of 3,300MB/s,” said Joe Rorke, vice president of marketing, Rorke Data.

Comments

That's a good marketing idea to put 3Gb or 6Gb SAS interface - instead of SATA - on a high-capacity 3.5-inch 7,200rpm HDD.

It's curious that nobody did it before as we don't see any technical issues to design it - just an interface to change. Why not also with FC? The reason was probably that the manufacturers wanted to protect their more lucrative enterprise market.

But is this new Constellation ES really an enterprise unit? Here the main spec is MTBF, and for its unit, Seagate only offer 1.2 million hours and a 5-year warranty like for its SATA Constellation devices. That's a low figure for a device supposed to be used for nearline, backup and eventually archiving.

Normally, we can expect a much lower price per gigabyte for the SAS Constellation ES, available at 500GB, 1TB and 2TB, compared to current enterprise drives at 10,000rpm or more with a maximum of 600GB. Seagate only stated: "With its 2TB high capacity, it’s capable of storing an unprecedented 76TB per square foot maximizing floor space at the lowest $/GB."

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