Choosing the Right Storage Drive

Choosing the Right Storage Drive

Seagate has the industry's widest breadth of enterprise storage devices for cloud data centers. From mission critical solid state drives and hard disk drives for cloud compute to nearline drives for cloud storage, Seagate can help you choose the right storage device for your cloud application.

Cloud Compute Drives

Ideal for cloud data center customers with servers and storage systems requiring the highest level of performance in compute intensive applications including content delivery networks, finance/banking, e-commerce, and HD video distribution.
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Enterprise Performance Solid State Drives

Pulsar® SSDs: ideal for log, journal, paging, metadata and index files.
  • Highest performance
  • Highest availability
  • Lowest latency
  • Capacities up to 800GB

Enterprise-class, MLC-enabled solid state drives.

Seagate® Pulsar® solid state drives (SSD) deliver the price-performance benefits plus the data integrity and drive endurance demanded by performance-hungry enterprise applications–all from the world leader in enterprise storage.
The newest generation, the Pulsar.2™ drive, offers:
  • Enterprise-class endurance (capable of up to 10 full drive writes per day)
  • Protection against unintended data change or loss
  • Capacities up to 800GB
  • A Self-Encrypting Drive option (800GB, SAS only)*
*Not available in all countries. Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support.

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Delivers Endurance. Protects data integrity.

Pulsar.2™ solid state drives deliver enterprise-class endurance and data integrity with features like these:
  • Advanced media management technology and Protection Information (PI is SAS only) to help guard against unexpected data loss or change
  • Background media scanning to help shield against read disturb data errors
  • Power loss data protection to help ensure data integrity during unexpected power loss
  • Wear-leveling algorithms that maximize the life of the device
  • Automatic, intelligent I/O error detection and correction
  • Garbage collection techniques identify the next best block on the NAND flash to erase and rewrite before the space is actually needed Garbage collection techniques identify the next best block on the NAND flash to erase and rewrite before the space is actually needed.
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The simple SSD solution.

Pulsar.2 solid state drives easily integrate into enterprise environments that demand price-performance.
  • Supports 6Gb/s SAS and SATA 6Gb/s for interface scalability and reliability—avoiding incompatibility across the software stack
  • Provides a common storage foundation to reduce system complexity and operating costs
  • Provides a common storage foundation to reduce system complexity and operating costs
  • Hotpluggable to avoid unnecessary downtime
  • 2.5-inch form factor fits existing HDD slots
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World-class service and support.

Pulsar solid state drives leverage over 30 years of Seagate leadership in designing, building and supporting the highest-quality enterprise storage devices.
Seagate offers unparalleled expertise in:
  • Firmware development and optimization
  • Customer integration
  • Supply chain efficiency
  • System design and interface development
Additionally, Seagate is actively leading the development of SSD and SSS industry standards through JEDEC and the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA).

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Enteprise Performance, 2.5-inch 15K-RPM HDD

Savvio® 15K hard drives: ideal for email, database, video, virtualization, virtual desktop and web server applications.
  • High performance
  • High availability
  • Low latency
  • Capacities up to 300 GB

Boost drive performance. Double storage capacity.

Seagate® Savvio® 15K hard drives leverage a 2.5-inch form factor to deliver pronounced performance advantages and power savings over legacy 3.5-inch drives.
The newest generation, Savvio 15K.3, offers:
  • Faster transaction processing to facilitate faster time-to-revenue
  • Double data storage capacity (up to 300 GB) over previous generation
  • Improved reliability by up to 20% with an annualized failure rate (AFR) of 0.44%
  • Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS 140-2 Validated™ SED security options1
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    Step up to higher drive performance.

    Savvio 15K.3 drives enable faster transaction processing by improving sequential performance 21% over the previous generation. Additionally, these drives deliver up to 10% faster random reads and up to 8% faster random writes vs. legacy 3.5-inch 15K drives.2
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    Reduce storage system complexity and operating costs.

    Savvio 15K drives minimize the number of technologies in use, thereby reducing IT complexity and operating expenses. By leveraging the Unified Storage architecture from Seagate , you can standardize on best-of-breed form factor, interface, and data security.
    • Efficient 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF)
    • High Performance 6Gb/s SAS interface
    • Self-Encrypting Drive1 data security options
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    Storage reliability and data security you can trust.

    Savvio 15K drives offer field-proven reliability essential in enterprise environments.
    Savvio 15K drives also help protect data with features like:
    • SED models1 that help secure data against unauthorized access upon drive loss, theft and retirement
    • Protection Information (PI)3 technology to protect data integrity
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    Savvio 10k

    Enterprise Performance, 2.5-inch 10K HDD

    Savvio® 10K hard drives: ideal for email, database, video, virtualization, virtual desktop and web server applications.
    • High performance
    • High availability
    • Low latency
    • Capacities up to 900 GB

    Cloud Storage Drives

    Ideal for cloud data center customers with servers and storage systems that require the lowest power with the highest capacities for general-purpose servers and bulk storage applications like email, backup and disaster recovery.
    Constellation Pen

    Enterprise Capacity, 2.5-inch 7200-RPM HDD

    Constellation Drives for Bulk Storage: File server, data warehouseing, mining, analytics, backup, disaster recovery.
    • Good performance
    • Low power
    • Low cost/GB
    • Capacities up to 1TB

    Constellation Pen ES2

    Enterprise Capacity, 3.5-inch 7200 RPM HDD

    Constellation ES Drives for Bulk Storage: File server, data warehouseing, mining, analytics, backup, disaster recovery.
    • Highest capacity
    • Low power
    • Low cost/GB
    • Capacities up to 4TB

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