It’s official! Seagate’s new SSD is called Pulsar, and is shipping to enterprise OEMs. Pulsar is targeted at the enterprise blade server and general server market.
Pulsar is the first truly enterprise-ready SSD from the world’s leader in enterprise storage devices.
The specs you might expect:
Up to 200 Gigabytes
SLC technology
3 Gb/s SATA interface
Improved IOPS per Watt (vs. hard [...]
December 8, 2009 - 6:02 am
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in SSD, Servers, Technology
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Tagged 2.5", 200GB, AFR, announce, enterprise, enterprise-ready, first, flash memory, hard drive, launch, power loss protection, Pulsar, reliability, sata, Seagate, SSD
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With the launch of Seagate’s groundbreaking Barracuda XT, there’s now a Barracuda drive for every need. Which one’s right for you?
David Burks explains it well in this video. David blogs at The Digital Den.
Mark Wojtasiak sums it up nicely on his Storage Means Business blog.
Not only do these drives cover the needs of the market, they do [...]
October 27, 2009 - 11:23 am
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in Desktop PC, Products, Reviews
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Tagged 3.5", 6G, 7200.11, 7200.12, applications, barracuda, barracuda lp, Barracuda XT, best, choose, colorado, contrast, david burks, disk drive, expert, Green, hard drive, how to, longmont, low power, Reviews, sata, Seagate, Seagate Barracuda "Barracuda XT" "Barracuda LP" 7200.12 7200.11 "Western Digital" WD "3.5 SATA" 6G green "low power" Longmont Colorado "David Burks" expert "how to" howto choose contrast applications , video, WD, western digital
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We’ve had a lot of requests for more real-world insight on how to pick a drive. There are so many choices today – how does one know which drive to use for which application?
We’ve responded with a new video series called The Two-Minute Drill. These videos each feature a Seagate product expert and focus on [...]
August 21, 2009 - 1:32 pm
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in Desktop PC, Products, Servers, Technology
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Tagged 2 Minute Drill, 2 minutes, advice, disk drive, educational, experts, Ian Williams, Joni Clark, laptop, notebook, pc, SAS, sata, Seagate, storage, Two Minute Drill, video
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Seagate and AMD are the first to demonstrate a complete implementation of 6 Gb SATA today in New Orleans. 3 Gb/sec SATA is standard today. 6 Gb/sec interfaces will ship on products in late 2009, none too soon for industry needs.
Why should you care?
1. Storage device throughputs (disk drives and SSD) are approaching the 3 Gb/sec SATA speed [...]
March 9, 2009 - 5:28 am
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in Desktop PC, Notebook PC, Trends
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Tagged 3 Gb, 6 Gb, AMD, disk drive, gamers, new orleans, pc, Pete Steege, sata, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, throughput
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There has been a lot of coverage of Seagate’s new Constellation family of enterprise disk drives, mostly leading with something about 2 TB. While the 2 TB capacity is newsworthy, Constellation is a much bigger deal than that capacity milestone.
Chris Mellor caught a glimpse of it. (UPDATE: fixed the broken Chris Mellor link. Thanks Chris Evans!) Here’s [...]
February 3, 2009 - 7:07 am
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, Green, Products, Security
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Tagged 2 TB, 2.5", 3.5", barracuda es, Cheetah, constellation, Constellation ES, disk drive, encryption, enterprise, fde, full disk encryption, Pete Steege, SAS, sata, savvio, Seagate, Seagate Blogs, SED, self-encrypting drives
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Seagate and SAS/SATA flexibility get the nod for their Big Guns of Business platform
When it comes to storage, Tom’s Hardware gets it.
It’s not because they chose Seagate’s Cheetah 15K SAS and Barracuda ES SATA drives for their Big Guns of Business workstation platform. It’s that they understand the truly revolutionary benefits of SAS and SATA in [...]
SAS drives are thriving outside the data center, despite SATA’s cost advantage
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) was created to replace SCSI, the long-standing enterprise hard drive interface. It has done that, but there have been sightings far from the datacenter. Places like Ravelry, a seemingly home-hosted knitting website:
Rather than shrink in the face of lower priced SATA [...]
SAS drives get bigger and smaller to take share from SATA for business applications
IDC data from InfoStor shows this year and next are the golden age of SATA drives in the enterprise.
It’s not that the trend for high capacity storage abates in the future; it’s that SAS drives are expanding their capabilities to replace SATA in many applications.
Bigger [...]
June 23, 2008 - 7:33 am
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By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, Random, Trends
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Tagged 1 TB, 2.5", barracuda es, IDC, InfoStor, SAS, sata, savvio
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Compellent’s success is about more than their technology
My first clue that Compellent is different came in the lobby bathroom. In their LEED-certified corporate HQ (the first in Minnesota), the urinals use no water.
Compellent is getting rave reviews from their fast-growing customer base, not just for their storage solution, but also for their “thin provisioning” approach to delivering and supporting their [...]
Higher performance and redundancy for high-capacity SAS architectures
Web 2.0 storage applications have been a boon to high capacity server-class SATA drives like Seagate’s Barracuda ES. But 7200 rpm SATA will only take you so far. Enterprise-class 15K rpm SAS drives are incredibly robust and full-featured, and priced like it. Shouldn’t there be something in between?
Now there [...]
