Seagate Ships Savvio® 10k.2 To Worldwide Distribution Channel

Seagate Ships Savvio® 10k.2 To Worldwide Distribution Channel

Seagate Technology® (NYSE:STX) today announced it has begun shipping its Savvio 10K.2 hard drives in volume to the distribution channel worldwide. The Savvio family, based on the 2.5-inch enterprise small form factor platform and featuring a Serial Attached SCSI interface, provides a range of benefits to enterprise system designers.

Seagate’s second-generation 2.5-inch 10K-rpm enterprise class disc drive, the Savvio 10K.2 delivers high I/O transaction performance with industry-leading 1.6 million hour MTBF reliability and up to 146GB capacity. With power consumption that has dropped an average of 15% over the previous product generation, and a form factor that is 70% smaller than conventional 3.5-inch drives, the Savvio 10K.2 makes possible the integration of more drives into smaller chassis sizes.

“The trend in IT is clear – SAS provides a range of advantages that when coupled with Seagate’s 2.5-inch Savvio hard drive, produces powerful storage solutions that deliver new system-level benefits to the enterprise,” said Marc Jourlait, Seagate VP of global channel marketing. “Now system builders and VARs can address exciting new business opportunities as the combination of these technologies gains further momentum.”

Seagate’s Savvio 10K.2 hard drive joins the recently announced Savvio 15K hard drive as solutions for the creation of new types of storage systems including blade servers with true enterprise-class storage, 1U servers with full RAID 5 capability, and larger rack servers with the increased performance density. Savvio’s small size and reduced power consumption enable the creation of systems that can take advantage of today’s high-powered processors that require greater cooling and airflow.

The wide adoption and success of the Savvio product family has enabled the channel pricing of the Savvio 10K.2 hard drive to be targeted at a range of applications and budgets, and the Savvio 10K.2 not only increases capacity but also reduces costs. In fact, Savvio 10K.2 pricing is 150% less than the first generation Savvio when it was originally introduced*. Seagate is breaking down all barriers to make SFF (small form factor) enterprise drives attractive to system builders and integrators.

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