Seagate Savvio hard drives to be incorporated

New Delhi: Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives, today announced that IBM (NYSE:IBM) will be the first to market with its new IBM eServer xSeries 1U systems using Seagate Savvio 2.5 inch enterprise disc drives. The Seagate Savvio drives will be integrated into IBM xSeries 336 servers, making them the world''s first 1U servers with four drives and enabling the capability for RAID 0, one, and five functionality.

Current 1U servers can only perform basic mirroring, due to the limitation of having space for only two drives. As the world''s first 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive, Seagate Savvio delivers an improved return on investment (ROI) result for IT professionals because of its faster performance, improved space utilisation and reduced infrastructure requirements.

IBM will begin shipping Seagate Savvio drives within IBM xSeries 336 servers in early September. Seagate Savvio disc drives enable a new category of high I/O density storage solutions designed to provide space-constrained Fortune 2000 data centres with higher IOPS (I/O per second) performance in small form factor system configurations with the highest levels of reliability. Seagate Savvio offers a combination of features including its smaller size, lower power consumption, fast seek times and high reliability.

Seagate Savvio comes with a 10,000-rpm spin speed, capacity choices of 36-and 73-Gbyte and 1.4 million hours MTBF. Savvio''s reliability rating is specified based on testing in a 7/24/365 100 per cent duty cycle enterprise-class workload environment and therefore is ideally suited for meeting the needs of IT professionals challenged by continuing server and storage consolidation.