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Seagate on security and interface trends at SNW Fall 2011

The fall 2011 Storage Networking World (SNW) show is just around the corner and will be held next week at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes in Orlando, Florida. SNW is the world’s largest storage, data center, and IT infrastructure conference and brings together top information from information technology executives, leading product and service providers, and [...]

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Enterprise HDD doc overview April 2011

Do IT Professionals care what’s under the covers when it comes to their equipment?

Yes they do! IT Pros know what drive brands are spinning inside their equipment.  OEMs may want all of us drive guys to be strictly vanilla but to IT pros, there is a difference …especially when it comes to enterprise storage.   Each month IT Brand Pulse selects a handful of product…

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The Top 10 Technologies That Remain the Backbone of Enterprise Storage

Enterprise Storage Forum posted a recent story titled, “Top 10 Technologies That Remain the Backbone of Storage.” These are the unsung heroes… they are the unhyped…some may be technologies you thought were dying… but they are in fact the technologies that run the world’s data, and…

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Are All Hard Drives Created Equal? Examining Rotational Vibration in Desktop vs. Enterprise

Often we receive the question, “What are the differences between desktop and enterprise drives?” That same person may in fact also be thinking, “Can I use those lower-cost desktop drives in an enterprise environment?” Seagate engineers design and test enterprise-class drives including…

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Seagate Cheetah drives are well-known within the storage industry as being among the most reliable HDDs offered

Diving into “MTBF” and “AFR”: Storage Reliability Specs Explained

During Seagate’s recent launch of its Savvio 10K.4 drive, I read some news stories that indicated the 10K.4’s two million hour Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) specification meant that the drive’s actual average lifespan equated to over 200 years of use. While the 10K.4 certainly is 25% more…

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6Gb/s SAS drives are a worthy complement to SSD

SSD is emerging as a viable option for some enterprise applications, but it will be awhile before it is mature enough for the most critical applications.  Until then, data centers will do just fine with the newest crop of 6Gb/s SAS drives.  Computer Power User reviewed the field and saw a lot…

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Virtualization is a killer app for 6Gb/s SAS

InfoStor’s article on 6Gb/s SAS and 8 Gb/s FC is titled “The Need for Speed“.  Aptly named, as unlike typical ‘speed bumps’, this round of interface speed doubling may be needed right away.  And from their interface forecast, it’s clear that SAS will play a…

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Enter the Dragon: Seagate Cheetah 15K.7

Xbit Labs performed the mother of all SAS drive tests.  Seventeen SAS 3.5″ drives run through the gauntlet on performance, capacity, power – you name it. It’s like Enter the Dragon for disk drives. After 22 web pages of detailed results, who was the last drive standing? “The…

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Seagate Cheetah 15K.7

Two Cheetah 15K.7 drives do the work of ten

The history of the disk drive industry is a long series of relentless “firsts”.  The latest Seagate Cheetah 15k drive stands out as a particularly impressive milestone. Barefeats was able to use two Cheetah 15K.7 drives on uncompressed video in a way that required ten drives in the…

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All 6Gb/s SAS, all the time

                  It’s like HDTV.  First we had HD televisions without any content.  Then we had some HD broadcasts, and some HD DVDs in the stores. Then – inflection point! – all the pieces were there.  TVs, DVRs, broadcast, DVDs, web content.  The whole thing…

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