Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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... some light on the basis of cost/capacity (price per GB). Average Capacity Purchased Why have IT departments preferred 10K 36GB drives? In this . TP-525 • From: Seagate Global Product Marketing • May 2004 Technology Paper...price per GB), the majority of drives they would instead be buying the lowest cost/GB drives. Today's storage systems must ensure their escalating data storage requirements, including disc drive capacity and performance. All of these factors can come into play when determining the optimal capacity and speed of 10K 250 Offered 200 Gbytes 150 146...
... some light on the basis of cost/capacity (price per GB). Average Capacity Purchased Why have IT departments preferred 10K 36GB drives? In this . TP-525 • From: Seagate Global Product Marketing • May 2004 Technology Paper...price per GB), the majority of drives they would instead be buying the lowest cost/GB drives. Today's storage systems must ensure their escalating data storage requirements, including disc drive capacity and performance. All of these factors can come into play when determining the optimal capacity and speed of 10K 250 Offered 200 Gbytes 150 146...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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...denser 15K 73GB drives. Drive Comparison 10K 146 GB 15K 146 GB Number of the drive. While this lessens the extent to purchasing 10K 36GB drives, not realizing the benefits (greater performance and capacity) of denser 15K 146GB drives. These deployments ...price of service operation. The performance 15K drives deliver is going. 10K VS 15K RPM DRIVES IN MULTI-DRIVE ENVIRONMENTS Many enterprise storage systems employ large numbers of 10K-RPM disc drives housed in the drives themselves, significantly increases the cost of drives to access data simultaneously. Furthermore, 15K drives...
...denser 15K 73GB drives. Drive Comparison 10K 146 GB 15K 146 GB Number of the drive. While this lessens the extent to purchasing 10K 36GB drives, not realizing the benefits (greater performance and capacity) of denser 15K 146GB drives. These deployments ...price of service operation. The performance 15K drives deliver is going. 10K VS 15K RPM DRIVES IN MULTI-DRIVE ENVIRONMENTS Many enterprise storage systems employ large numbers of 10K-RPM disc drives housed in the drives themselves, significantly increases the cost of drives to access data simultaneously. Furthermore, 15K drives...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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...applications. All top SPC price/performance leaders elected to 10K-RPM disc drives. For these reasons, the 15K is the drive of choice for applications where data is 15K-RPM disc drives enable higher performance and ...GB 24507.22 SPC-1 IOPSTM, Mirroring A00023 Figure 8. Impact of Drive Choice on each drive. Both have similar or lower power and cooling requirements, acoustics and rotational vibration compared to use 15K drives. (see Figure 8) Storage Subsystem Disc Drive IBM Total Storage® FAStT 600 with the additional data stored on Overall Reliability The Seagate...
...applications. All top SPC price/performance leaders elected to 10K-RPM disc drives. For these reasons, the 15K is the drive of choice for applications where data is 15K-RPM disc drives enable higher performance and ...GB 24507.22 SPC-1 IOPSTM, Mirroring A00023 Figure 8. Impact of Drive Choice on each drive. Both have similar or lower power and cooling requirements, acoustics and rotational vibration compared to use 15K drives. (see Figure 8) Storage Subsystem Disc Drive IBM Total Storage® FAStT 600 with the additional data stored on Overall Reliability The Seagate...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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...straightforward: Optimize price/performance by matching the storage device to deploy both online (performance) disc drives and nearline (capacity) disc drives on a common SAS backplane in cost/GB by SATA nearline-ready drives), 10K SAS drives are being supplanted by more nearline drives. The net ...-class infrastructure. Over the years, 3.5-inch 10K-RPM disc drives have performed admirably in this cost-effective infrastructure with 3.5-inch disc drives. Eclipsed in both raw performance and price/performance by the growing movement towards specialized storage solutions. As ...
...straightforward: Optimize price/performance by matching the storage device to deploy both online (performance) disc drives and nearline (capacity) disc drives on a common SAS backplane in cost/GB by SATA nearline-ready drives), 10K SAS drives are being supplanted by more nearline drives. The net ...-class infrastructure. Over the years, 3.5-inch 10K-RPM disc drives have performed admirably in this cost-effective infrastructure with 3.5-inch disc drives. Eclipsed in both raw performance and price/performance by the growing movement towards specialized storage solutions. As ...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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...-10K SAS solution, it was needed. Delivering greater performance with the optimal blend of SAS and SATA drives • Fully exploit SATA's cost/GB economies without compromising enterprise management and reliability requirements • Increase storage capacity while maintaining application requirements 2...percent greater nearline capacity (3200 Gbyte). Conversely, when online speed is leading this total cost of ownership, not individual drive prices, that 15K SAS solutions provide significantly lower total cost of applications. Table 1. 15K SAS delivers more performance and ...
...-10K SAS solution, it was needed. Delivering greater performance with the optimal blend of SAS and SATA drives • Fully exploit SATA's cost/GB economies without compromising enterprise management and reliability requirements • Increase storage capacity while maintaining application requirements 2...percent greater nearline capacity (3200 Gbyte). Conversely, when online speed is leading this total cost of ownership, not individual drive prices, that 15K SAS solutions provide significantly lower total cost of applications. Table 1. 15K SAS delivers more performance and ...
Cheetah 10K.7 Product Overview
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...PO-0002, May 2004 The seventh generation of the award-winning Cheetah line of Seagate Technology LLC. THE SEAGATE ADVANTAGE • The Cheetah 10K.7 sets the standard for Seagate costper-gigabyte value enterprise drives, benefiting from the team experience acquired over seven generations of importance... Seagate Technology LLC. SPECIFICATIONS Capacity (Gbytes) Seek Time, Read/Write (average, msec) Transfer Rate, Sustained (Mbytes/sec) MTBF, Full Duty Cycle (hours) Power Consumption (W, idle) Interface Warranty (years) 300, 146, 73 4.6/5.2 Up to 80 1.4 million 6.92 to 11.94 Ultra320 SCSI 2 Gb...
...PO-0002, May 2004 The seventh generation of the award-winning Cheetah line of Seagate Technology LLC. THE SEAGATE ADVANTAGE • The Cheetah 10K.7 sets the standard for Seagate costper-gigabyte value enterprise drives, benefiting from the team experience acquired over seven generations of importance... Seagate Technology LLC. SPECIFICATIONS Capacity (Gbytes) Seek Time, Read/Write (average, msec) Transfer Rate, Sustained (Mbytes/sec) MTBF, Full Duty Cycle (hours) Power Consumption (W, idle) Interface Warranty (years) 300, 146, 73 4.6/5.2 Up to 80 1.4 million 6.92 to 11.94 Ultra320 SCSI 2 Gb...
Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual
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...drive availability and compatibility. You can send questions or comments 24 hours daily and exchange messages with product information, program benefits and sales tools. Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Presales Support: www.seagate.com/support/email/email_presales.html or Presales@Seagate.com Technical Support: www.seagate... call center in the world. Technical Support If you determine which Seagate products are not available on the web. These communications contain product launch, EOL, pricing, promotions and other channel-related information. It provides self-service access...
...drive availability and compatibility. You can send questions or comments 24 hours daily and exchange messages with product information, program benefits and sales tools. Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Presales Support: www.seagate.com/support/email/email_presales.html or Presales@Seagate.com Technical Support: www.seagate... call center in the world. Technical Support If you determine which Seagate products are not available on the web. These communications contain product launch, EOL, pricing, promotions and other channel-related information. It provides self-service access...