Seagate Launches Industry's 2.5-inch 1TB Enterprise Hard Drive
Seagate Launches Industry's 2.5-inch 1TB Enterprise Hard Drive
Posted 12/13/2010 at 9:22am
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Seagate's new Constellation.2 hard drive is the world's first 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDD to boast 1TB of storage capacity, the HDD maker announced today.
"Data center managers continue to seek out more efficient storage technologies without sacrificing performance, while still meeting capacity growth requirements," said John Rydning, research director for IDC . "Reaching the 1TB capacity in a small form factor design gives IT managers more options to meet capacity requirements with efficient storage platforms. IDC expects the use of capacity-optimized drives like Seagate’s 1TB Constellation.2 to increase by more than 50 percent from 2010 to 2014."
Also available in 250GB and 500GB capacities, the Constellation.2 series comes with 6Gb/s SATA or 6Gb/s SAS interface options, as well as a Self Encrypting Drive (SED) option for enhanced security, Seagate says.
The Constellation.2 series will appear in Dell systems later this month.
Image Credit: Seagate
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BlazePC
December 13, 2010 at 12:20pm
Don't assume all 2.5" drives are just for notebooks. Blade servers are becoming a bigger part of IT infrastructures and are based primarily on 2.5" drives. These are enterprise because they offer enterprise interfaces, speed and long term reliablity.
ShyLinuxGuy
December 13, 2010 at 12:05pm
I understand that just because it says "Enterprise," that it doesn't strictly mean only the enterprise will be buying/using this...but the enterprise does NOT need a lot of storage on the client side. It's the server side that needs the storage. I suppose that this would be somewhat useful in departments that deal with multimedia/graphic design, *heavy* software development, R&D...but not for something like accounting, Human Resources, and whatever. This is really a drive for consumers who store large files (music, movies, whatever). 80-160GB is often more than plenty for an average enterprise client PC/laptop.
FenixSS
December 13, 2010 at 11:30am
Does this mean 1TB laptops? or is it a 2.5 but not for a laptop bay? Say a Asus G73 for example. Or my older Dell M1710.
choechst
December 13, 2010 at 12:49pm
The difference is the drive's height. laptop drives have 2 platters and are 9.5mm while Enterprise drives have 1 more platter and are 12.5 to 15mm high.
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