Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today announced it is shipping the world’s fastest hard
drive— the Seagate® Enterprise Turbo™ SSHD. The
industry’s first enterprise solid state hybrid drive (SSHD), the
Enterprise Turbo SSHD combines the capacity of a hard drive with
solid-state flash enabling high-speed performance for mission critical
data.
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Setting a new standard in mission critical performance, the Enterprise
Turbo SSHD provides up to a 3X increase in random performance over
existing 15K-RPM drives and is available with up to 600GB of capacity.
By unifying the best of solid-state and magnetic technologies, Turbo
improves tiered storage performance combining accelerated speed with
hard disk drive (HDD) high-capacity.
“Typically the most demanding mission critical applications for 15K
drives have improved performance by compromising on capacity and cost
per GB,” said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate executive vice president and chief
sales and marketing officer. “With the Enterprise Turbo SSHD, we deliver
a no compromise drive that provides high-speed performance while
enabling customers to leverage all of Turbo’s capacity. The result, a
combination of performance and capacity that we believe represents a new
paradigm shift for mission critical, enterprise storage— a real game
changer in storage solutions now and for generations to come.”
IBM is using Seagate SSHD Technology
Over the past year, Seagate and IBM
have been putting an enterprise SSHD prototype through its paces. After
months of testing in Seagate and IBM labs, the first enterprise SSHD has
been introduced as an option for the IBM System x servers. For more
information, click
here.
Storage Performance Council benchmarks confirm Seagate SSHD
technology as performance leader:
Based on preliminary performance testing using standard system
benchmarking tools, a 10K-RPM version of enterprise SSHD boasts IOPS
over 2X better than a standard 600GB 10K-RPM hard disk drive. The end
result is much improved and more cost effective performance for servers
running mission critical applications such as big data analytics,
virtual desktop infrastructure, and database and transaction processing.
For more on the preliminary Seagate enterprise SSHD performance
benchmarking click here for Storage Performance Council benchmarks.
The Enterprise Turbo SSHD enables lower cost server and storage
configurations, making it appealing for OEMs and system builders who
demand the highest, scalable performance at an affordable cost. It also
delivers up to 3X the current mission critical HDD random performance at
an HDD-comparable price. An extremely efficient and economical storage
solution, the drive provides significantly improved $/IOPS.
The drive fine tunes storage tiering by caching at the I/O level,
thereby addressing performance gaps and bottlenecks often found in
tiered system environments. It also offers a self-encrypting drive
option to maximize security for data-at-rest.
Key features of the Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD include:
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World’s Fastest Enterprise Hard Drive— boasts ultra-fast speed
with up to 3X the increase in random performance over standard 15K-RPM
drives.
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Industry’s First Enterprise SSHD— delivers transparent SSD-like
performance to most heavily accessed data.
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Ultimate Capacity— features up to 600GB of capacity— the
highest enterprise performance drive available today.
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Affordably Priced— yields 3X the current mission critical HDD
random performance at an HDD-comparable price.
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High-Reliability— provides enterprise endurance and reliability.
Additional information on the Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD can be found
by visiting www.seagate.com/www/turbo.
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to drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes. Your
computer’s operating system may use a different standard of measurement
and report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is
used for formatting and other functions and will not be available for
data storage.
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