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Disk drives prove to be greener than SSDs in servers

 
Ideas International compared a disk-based server to an SSD-based server using the new Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1/E efficiency benchmark for some very interesting results. 
The disk-based server used 300 GB Seagate Savvio 10K drives.  The SSD server was an IBM model using 69 GB solid state devices.
Summary:

Cost/IOPS: about the same
Cost/gigabyte: disk-based server wins
Gigabytes/Watt: disk-based server wins
IOPS/Watt: SSD-based server wins

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June 24, 2009 - 7:47 am | By Pete Steege | Posted in 10K/15K RPM, SSD, Servers, reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Everything you wanted to know about Seagate enterprise drives – but not from Seagate

The guys over at sacklun.ch must’ve spend a month spinning Seagate drives to generate this thoughtful and incredibly thorough review.  Their focus was documenting the difference between 2.5″ and 3.5″ enterprise drives using just about every imaginable scale.
Consider it a handy 3rd party reference for Seagate’s enterprise line-up. 
Of course, you can always go here for Seagate’s perspective [...]

June 3, 2009 - 2:25 pm | By Pete Steege | Posted in 10K/15K RPM, 7200 rpm, Products, reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)