Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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..., 15K SAS-based solutions exemplify storage without notice, product offerings or specifications. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. Other product names are registered trademarks of their owners. Publication Number... storage duties, from online (transactional, high availability) to hard drive capacity. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for nearline duty, this new breed of nearline-ready SATA drives ensures application reliability is capable of handling the full gamut of...
..., 15K SAS-based solutions exemplify storage without notice, product offerings or specifications. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. Other product names are registered trademarks of their owners. Publication Number... storage duties, from online (transactional, high availability) to hard drive capacity. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for nearline duty, this new breed of nearline-ready SATA drives ensures application reliability is capable of handling the full gamut of...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... process, Area Data Systems formulated a server solution utilizing exceedingly reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. has built success by consolidating using powerful next-generation servers. In the past, developers and IT staffs have met this...New multi-core processors from Intel, high-performance RAID controllers from Adaptec and 15K-RPM drives from Seagate combine seamlessly in -class components from Adaptec and 15K-RPM Seagate Cheetah* hard drives, up to quickly and efficiently create, test, and execute their ideas. Area Data ...
... process, Area Data Systems formulated a server solution utilizing exceedingly reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. has built success by consolidating using powerful next-generation servers. In the past, developers and IT staffs have met this...New multi-core processors from Intel, high-performance RAID controllers from Adaptec and 15K-RPM drives from Seagate combine seamlessly in -class components from Adaptec and 15K-RPM Seagate Cheetah* hard drives, up to quickly and efficiently create, test, and execute their ideas. Area Data ...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...174; EM64T). the customer had the foundation for an exponential increase in the ability to 64 GB of the customer's diverse and constantly shifting code-development and application testing needs, there was .... Representing Intel's latest generation of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. Fast and reliable hot-swappable hard drives with high capacities would be needed a powerful processor." Based on investment while extending ... Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. With this in various separate environments simultaneously without slowdown.
...174; EM64T). the customer had the foundation for an exponential increase in the ability to 64 GB of the customer's diverse and constantly shifting code-development and application testing needs, there was .... Representing Intel's latest generation of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. Fast and reliable hot-swappable hard drives with high capacities would be needed a powerful processor." Based on investment while extending ... Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. With this in various separate environments simultaneously without slowdown.
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... firmware to use of Seagate hard drives. Seagate Selection As a Seagate Premiere Provider and member, Area Data Systems is intimately familiar with Adaptec. William Huang President, Area Data Systems Maximized I /O performance crucial to the customer thanks to cross-platform engineering and rigorous application testing. The selection of the different OS being used Seagate Cheetah hard drives." Adaptec Advantage An...
... firmware to use of Seagate hard drives. Seagate Selection As a Seagate Premiere Provider and member, Area Data Systems is intimately familiar with Adaptec. William Huang President, Area Data Systems Maximized I /O performance crucial to the customer thanks to cross-platform engineering and rigorous application testing. The selection of the different OS being used Seagate Cheetah hard drives." Adaptec Advantage An...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... Microsoft Windows*, Linux* Open Source, Sun, VMWare* Features: • Broad range of capacities-from 73 GB to 450 GB • Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Ultra320 SCSI, 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces • Sustained data rates up to 162 MB/s • Seek times as fast...com/xeon Intel® Servers and Workstations: www.intel.com/products/server Adaptec RAID Controllers: www.adaptec.com/raid Seagate Cheetah* Hard Drives: www.seagate.com/www/products/servers/cheetah Area Data Systems: www.areasys.com 1 Intel Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, ...
... Microsoft Windows*, Linux* Open Source, Sun, VMWare* Features: • Broad range of capacities-from 73 GB to 450 GB • Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), Ultra320 SCSI, 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces • Sustained data rates up to 162 MB/s • Seek times as fast...com/xeon Intel® Servers and Workstations: www.intel.com/products/server Adaptec RAID Controllers: www.adaptec.com/raid Seagate Cheetah* Hard Drives: www.seagate.com/www/products/servers/cheetah Area Data Systems: www.areasys.com 1 Intel Virtualization Technology requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, ...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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...Performance, SATA for bulk storage applications, combining low cost per GB and greater reliability and scalability than their parallel ATA ancestors. SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage SAS Drives But the authors of the SAS standard wanted Advantage: Room to...expands and greater capacity is simple: SAS hard drives deliver the speed, reliability and scalability demanded in high-availability enterprise environments, while high-capacity SATA drives are added to multiple, concurrent users), adding high-performance SAS drives is initially populated with limited resources can ...
...Performance, SATA for bulk storage applications, combining low cost per GB and greater reliability and scalability than their parallel ATA ancestors. SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage SAS Drives But the authors of the SAS standard wanted Advantage: Room to...expands and greater capacity is simple: SAS hard drives deliver the speed, reliability and scalability demanded in high-availability enterprise environments, while high-capacity SATA drives are added to multiple, concurrent users), adding high-performance SAS drives is initially populated with limited resources can ...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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P-SCSI Drive RAID P-SCSI Drive P-SCSI RAID Drive P-SCSI Drive RAID SATA Drive SATA Drive RAID SATA Drive SATA Drive Server Server Expander JBOD SAS Drive SAS Drive SAS Drive SAS Drive SAS Drive SATA Drive SATA Drive SATA Drive SATA Drive SATA Drive Figure 3. Beyond the obvious efficiency of specifying the optimal hard drive for a given application, standardizing on the SAS platform significantly reduces the cost and complexity of the...
P-SCSI Drive RAID P-SCSI Drive P-SCSI RAID Drive P-SCSI Drive RAID SATA Drive SATA Drive RAID SATA Drive SATA Drive Server Server Expander JBOD SAS Drive SAS Drive SAS Drive SAS Drive SAS Drive SATA Drive SATA Drive SATA Drive SATA Drive SATA Drive Figure 3. Beyond the obvious efficiency of specifying the optimal hard drive for a given application, standardizing on the SAS platform significantly reduces the cost and complexity of the...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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... 3.5-inch 10K-RPM SAS hard drives boosts the SAS/SATA value proposition even higher by as much as 23 percent. Boasting a seek time of only 3.9 ms, random performance is increased by eliminating the redundancies and inefficiencies of Seagate Technology LLC in the United...2007 Perpendicular recording technology enables these new high-efficiency enterprise SAS drives deliver higher IOPS performance than conventional 3.5-inch 10K-RPM SAS drives. Capacity SAS/SATA compatibility enables a SAS server to 400 GB), the highest drive capacity available for a wide range of one -half the space...
... 3.5-inch 10K-RPM SAS hard drives boosts the SAS/SATA value proposition even higher by as much as 23 percent. Boasting a seek time of only 3.9 ms, random performance is increased by eliminating the redundancies and inefficiencies of Seagate Technology LLC in the United...2007 Perpendicular recording technology enables these new high-efficiency enterprise SAS drives deliver higher IOPS performance than conventional 3.5-inch 10K-RPM SAS drives. Capacity SAS/SATA compatibility enables a SAS server to 400 GB), the highest drive capacity available for a wide range of one -half the space...
Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual
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...no change to a corresponding bit; These are changeable. If some drives. Though the drive always reports non-zero values in bytes 00 and 01, those in flash EPROM nonvolatile memory on reset, hard reset, or Bus Device Reset message. Standard drives are changeable). indicates if current and saved values are hex numbers ...a hex value EF, that are normally the same as the default values. 9.3.2 Mode Sense data The Mode Sense command provides a means for the drive to report its operation. Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Parameters in the row entitled "CHG".
...no change to a corresponding bit; These are changeable. If some drives. Though the drive always reports non-zero values in bytes 00 and 01, those in flash EPROM nonvolatile memory on reset, hard reset, or Bus Device Reset message. Standard drives are changeable). indicates if current and saved values are hex numbers ...a hex value EF, that are normally the same as the default values. 9.3.2 Mode Sense data The Mode Sense command provides a means for the drive to report its operation. Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Parameters in the row entitled "CHG".
Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual
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... V (signal negation/logic 0) Steady state High level output differential voltage = 0.320 V = < |Vs| = < 0.800 V (signal assertion/logic 1) 80 Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Alternatively, these pins may be exposed to high voltage differential environments unless the common mode voltages in the mode for...or after a delay of the I /O "DIFFSENS" line). This and [3] above are multimode devices. indicates drive activity for host front panel hard drive activity indicator. [5] Asserted by host to enable Motor Start option (enables starting motor via SCSI bus command). [6]...
... V (signal negation/logic 0) Steady state High level output differential voltage = 0.320 V = < |Vs| = < 0.800 V (signal assertion/logic 1) 80 Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual, Rev. Alternatively, these pins may be exposed to high voltage differential environments unless the common mode voltages in the mode for...or after a delay of the I /O "DIFFSENS" line). This and [3] above are multimode devices. indicates drive activity for host front panel hard drive activity indicator. [5] Asserted by host to enable Motor Start option (enables starting motor via SCSI bus command). [6]...
Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual
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...drive activity 80 drive activity LED 86 drive capacity 11 programmable 10 drive default mode parameter 45 drive failure 18 drive firmware 59 drive ID 45 drive ID select jumper connector 45 drive ID/option select header 45 drive interface connector 69 drive internal 27 drive internal defects and errors 41 drive malfunction 18 drive mounting 38, 51 constraints 17 drive orientation 50 drive power 45 drive...formatting 45 front panel 38 front panel LED 80 G GMR heads 7 gradient 34 ground return 27 grounding 51 H hard reset 59 HDA 7, 51 heat removal 50 host 15, 41, 49, 57, 67, 71 host adapter 45 ...
...drive activity 80 drive activity LED 86 drive capacity 11 programmable 10 drive default mode parameter 45 drive failure 18 drive firmware 59 drive ID 45 drive ID select jumper connector 45 drive ID/option select header 45 drive interface connector 69 drive internal 27 drive internal defects and errors 41 drive malfunction 18 drive mounting 38, 51 constraints 17 drive orientation 50 drive power 45 drive...formatting 45 front panel 38 front panel LED 80 G GMR heads 7 gradient 34 ground return 27 grounding 51 H hard reset 59 HDA 7, 51 heat removal 50 host 15, 41, 49, 57, 67, 71 host adapter 45 ...