Reducing power consumption in the data center has moved from a nice-to-have to a necessity. No surprise that a ‘green’ drive sounds appealing for servers and storage systems.
Drive manufacturers have responded with new drives that use much less power than previous models.
Just be careful not to throw the enterprise ‘baby’ out with the bathwater. Green enterprise drives use less power, but are still enterprise drives under the covers. That means enterprise-level performance, reliability, RAID integration features.
IT administrators that focus on low power at the expense of other features have gotten burned with drives that may be labeled enterprise, but don’t cut the mustard when it comes to getting the job done.
Seagate enterprise drives, like the new Constellation drive, have ‘green’ features like PowerTrim and PowerChoice that reduce power while still meeting enterprise server and multi-drive storage requirements.
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IT Managers looking for speed out of their data centers are looking closely at implementing 6Gb/s SAS. But indeed, it’s more than that. SAS now comes close to offering the enterprise scalability that we’ve counted on Fibre Channel for up until now. If you’re configuring multi-drive environments and want more lowdown on the uptake, check out 
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Intel has a great way of getting new technology in the hands of those who need it. I recently attended one of the Intel TST (Technical Solutions Trainings) that made it’s way to our city. This boot camp for Intel channel partners is designed for server solution architects, system integrators, technical engineers and anyone wanting to expand their knowledge of server integration. Attendees were trained on building a low power yet high performance server based on the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500. 
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