Seagate Launches Savvio 10K.4 hard Drive, 600GB in 2.5 Inches
Seagate Launches Savvio 10K.4 hard Drive, 600GB in 2.5 Inches
Posted 02/10/2010 at 5:33am
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Seagate on Tuesday said it has begun shipping what it claims is the "world's highest-capacity, most reliable small form factor enterprise drive," the Savvio 10K.4 HDD. As the model number suggests, this one spins at 10,000 RPM, but don't get too excited desktop denizens, this 600GB drive is destined for servers.
"Our customers face challenging storage needs requiring the most efficient use of space and power while maintaining the highest performance possible," said Howard Shoobe, senior manager, Dell Storage Product Management. "The new 2.5-inch 10K-rpm 600GB capacity point allows a doubling of capacity within the same rack space of current 3.5-inch 15K 600GB drives while increasing overall system-level performance and decreasing power usage."
The Savvio drives also come with either a 6Gbps SAS interface with dual-port communication, or a direct 4Gbps Fiber Channel connection. Other specs include 16MB of cache, a 4.6W power draw when idle, and various data protection and power saving features Seagate claims "can reduce the total cost of ownership to IT organizations and administrators."
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Windows Securit...
February 10, 2010 at 3:25pm
This drive has no reason to exist!
You will have much better reliability, security and speed by simply adding a read only switch to a 1 Terrabyte 5400RPM 2.5 inch drive with a 4 to 16GByte Cache (4 for XP machines and 16GB for Windows 7)
The Data would be safe as its Read Only when you need it to be (NO VIRUSES EVER) yet All Cached Data would be rewritable and available at speeds WAY Faster than a simple little 10,000 RPM Drive !
We want to PROTECT OUR DATA!
Give us a Drive we can switch to READ ONLY MODE and have a 4GB Cache for Read Write operations!
Set the Cache to load ALL programs that loaded in the first 60 seconds on the last bootup and have it cached and ready to load as soon as the BIOS has finished loading and BAMMO, we got our 2 second boot times!
Your Drive is CRAP Gentlemen
I'm a Freakin Expert so I should know
Mr Expert
nekollx
February 10, 2010 at 9:45am
Highest Capacity?
i have a 640 GB 2.5 in my notebook RIGHT NOW
granted it's SATA and 5,400 RPM, bit still
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Windows Securit...
February 10, 2010 at 2:36pm
Yes it is the highest capacity small form factor enterprise drive available @ 10000RPM
Do you have a small form factor enterprise drive available @ 10000RPM of higher capacity or are you just wasting time here again?
QuakindudeMod
February 10, 2010 at 12:33pm
It IS the highest capacity 10k RPM drive out there. And it's in a 2.5" form factor instead of the WD Velociraptor's 3.5". Previously, the largest 10K RPM 2.5" form factor drive you could find was a 300GB from Western Digital. On NewEgg, you could only find a 73GB HDD in 2.5" but a 146GB 15k RPM drive is available.
Anyway you look at it, your 640GB 2.5" drive isn't in the same class of drives the article is talking about. Seriously, try to think about what you're saying before you go sticking your foot in your mouth so often.
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nekollx
February 10, 2010 at 12:37pm
marketing spin, they call it the "largest capacity 2.5" which is well not true. Thats all i was saying.
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QuakindudeMod
February 10, 2010 at 11:17pm
Dude, you just don't get technology do you? It IS the largest capacity 10,000RPM drive in the 2.5" formfactor. People who are looking for out-right performance are NOT INTERESTED in your nice little 640GB 5400 RPM drive. What do you NOT GET about enterprise class drives vs. low power, low performance laptop drives?
Evidently, you don't get it at all.
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