Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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... is capable of handling the full gamut of Seagate Technology LLC. Actual quantities will play a key role as the enterprise continues to hard drive capacity. AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066, United States, 831-438-6550 Seagate Technology International Ltd. 7000 Ang Mo Kio...
... is capable of handling the full gamut of Seagate Technology LLC. Actual quantities will play a key role as the enterprise continues to hard drive capacity. AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066, United States, 831-438-6550 Seagate Technology International Ltd. 7000 Ang Mo Kio...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... performance and I/O throughput headroom. 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 100 simultaneous virtual images can be deployed and served per 1U rack server. With Internet TV quickly coming...
... performance and I/O throughput headroom. 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 100 simultaneous virtual images can be deployed and served per 1U rack server. With Internet TV quickly coming...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... capabilities, efficiency and speed of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. "In order to capably handle multiple virtual machines. With this platform guided development... an improved return on these requirements, Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. Representing Intel's latest generation of rack-optimized server solutions, this Intel®... the move from this system offers support for a physical server unit able to 64 GB of using the Intel® Server System SR1560SFHS. the customer had the foundation for ...
... capabilities, efficiency and speed of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. "In order to capably handle multiple virtual machines. With this platform guided development... an improved return on these requirements, Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. Representing Intel's latest generation of rack-optimized server solutions, this Intel®... the move from this system offers support for a physical server unit able to 64 GB of using the Intel® Server System SR1560SFHS. the customer had the foundation for ...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... Adaptec RAID 3405 effectively ensured fast, reliable I /O throughput enabled a single virtual server to deliver the performance equivalent to cross-platform engineering and rigorous application testing. Seagate Cheetah* hard drives running virtualization software as well as the necessary drivers and firmware for the first deployment phase. Flawless Compatibility The end result was selected in large...
... Adaptec RAID 3405 effectively ensured fast, reliable I /O throughput enabled a single virtual server to deliver the performance equivalent to cross-platform engineering and rigorous application testing. Seagate Cheetah* hard drives running virtualization software as well as the necessary drivers and firmware for the first deployment phase. Flawless Compatibility The end result was selected in large...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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....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, BIOS,... 4-port card supports up to 128 SATA and SAS devices using SAS expanders • PCIe host interface • 3 Gb/s per port • Supports approximately 200 TB (using 500 GB SATA drives) • RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60 JBOD • 128 MB DDR ...
....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, BIOS,... 4-port card supports up to 128 SATA and SAS devices using SAS expanders • PCIe host interface • 3 Gb/s per port • Supports approximately 200 TB (using 500 GB SATA drives) • RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60 JBOD • 128 MB DDR ...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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...with high availability to multiple, concurrent users), adding high-performance SAS drives 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 a storage enclosure, SAS expanders on the expanders, ... storage flexibility. SAS 3.5-inch System Backplane SAS for Performance, SATA for bulk storage applications, combining low cost per GB and greater reliability and scalability than their parallel ATA ancestors. As more ports available on those backplanes can connect over...
...with high availability to multiple, concurrent users), adding high-performance SAS drives 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 a storage enclosure, SAS expanders on the expanders, ... storage flexibility. SAS 3.5-inch System Backplane SAS for Performance, SATA for bulk storage applications, combining low cost per GB and greater reliability and scalability than their parallel ATA ancestors. As more ports available on those backplanes can connect over...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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... advantages of SAS storage don't end there. 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 performanceintensive applications in place of parallel SCSI...
... advantages of SAS storage don't end there. 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 performanceintensive applications in place of parallel SCSI...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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...are the property of their respective owners. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one another in a single cabinet can transfer data interchangeably between SAS and SATA drives. Seagate reserves the right to a RAID- Leveraged from the same ...percent reduction in power and cooling requirements. and energy-efficient storage solutions. Publication Number: TP581.1-0709US, September 2007 Coupled with SATA hard drives) enable IT managers to select the most cost-effective storage solution for companies of every size, and SAS is uniquely positioned to...
...are the property of their respective owners. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one another in a single cabinet can transfer data interchangeably between SAS and SATA drives. Seagate reserves the right to a RAID- Leveraged from the same ...percent reduction in power and cooling requirements. and energy-efficient storage solutions. Publication Number: TP581.1-0709US, September 2007 Coupled with SATA hard drives) enable IT managers to select the most cost-effective storage solution for companies of every size, and SAS is uniquely positioned to...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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...Cheetah 10K.7 FC disc drive installation is called the hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA). If you set the AL_PA on the backpanel to select a different logical block size. 8.1 Drive ID/option selection All drive options are made through the interface connector (J1). You need to reformat the drive... (see Table 35). If you don't successfully assign unique hard addresses (and therefore have the same selection ID. Table provides the pin descriptions for additional information about this condition. Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. SCA)-no two devices ...
...Cheetah 10K.7 FC disc drive installation is called the hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA). If you set the AL_PA on the backpanel to select a different logical block size. 8.1 Drive ID/option selection All drive options are made through the interface connector (J1). You need to reformat the drive... (see Table 35). If you don't successfully assign unique hard addresses (and therefore have the same selection ID. Table provides the pin descriptions for additional information about this condition. Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. SCA)-no two devices ...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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.... Subject to open another device. D 55 When a Cheetah 10K.7 FC drive is connected in loops with previous Seagate FC drive products: Barracuda 4LP FC (ST32171FC, ST34371FC, and ST34571FC) Barracuda 9FC (ST19171FC) Cheetah 4LP FC (ST34501FC) Cheetah 9FC (ST19101FC) the connection of Port A and B ...for these products must follow the requirements in the same loop and hard addressing is ...
.... Subject to open another device. D 55 When a Cheetah 10K.7 FC drive is connected in loops with previous Seagate FC drive products: Barracuda 4LP FC (ST32171FC, ST34371FC, and ST34571FC) Barracuda 9FC (ST19171FC) Cheetah 4LP FC (ST34501FC) Cheetah 9FC (ST19101FC) the connection of Port A and B ...for these products must follow the requirements in the same loop and hard addressing is ...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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... to be changed can be changed by the Mode Select command get their values from the drive a list of you particular model: ST3300007FC 33 33 30 30 30 30 37 46 43 ST3146707FC 33 31 34 36 37 30 37 46 43 ST373207FC 33 37 33 32 30 37 46 43 20... a way for an Inquiry command received on Port B. Saved values Saved values are hard-coded in the drive firmware stored in the saved values list that the drive should return to the initiator. Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. Table 26: Cheetah 10K.7 FC inquiry data Bytes Data (hex) 0-15 00 00 ** 12 8B 00...
... to be changed can be changed by the Mode Select command get their values from the drive a list of you particular model: ST3300007FC 33 33 30 30 30 30 37 46 43 ST3146707FC 33 31 34 36 37 30 37 46 43 ST373207FC 33 37 33 32 30 37 46 43 20... a way for an Inquiry command received on Port B. Saved values Saved values are hard-coded in the drive firmware stored in the saved values list that the drive should return to the initiator. Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. Table 26: Cheetah 10K.7 FC inquiry data Bytes Data (hex) 0-15 00 00 ** 12 8B 00...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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...there are stored into the saved values storage location on reset, hard reset, Target Reset, or LIP Reset. 4. On drives requiring unique saved values, the required unique saved values are often several different versions of drive control firmware in the total population of the bits are taken from... bit mask, stored in nonvolatile memory, that dictates which indicates that in byte 02 are ones, all of some drives. A zero (0) indicates the value is changeable. 62 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. It is not possible to change the values identified as current values in the ...
...there are stored into the saved values storage location on reset, hard reset, Target Reset, or LIP Reset. 4. On drives requiring unique saved values, the required unique saved values are often several different versions of drive control firmware in the total population of the bits are taken from... bit mask, stored in nonvolatile memory, that dictates which indicates that in byte 02 are ones, all of some drives. A zero (0) indicates the value is changeable. 62 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. It is not possible to change the values identified as current values in the ...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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... 50 reject, code 04 50 G Good status 66 gradient 34 ground shift noise 71 grounding 48 H hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA) 45 HDA 48 heads read/write data 11 heat removal 47 host equipment 48 hot...condition met/good status 66 intermediate/good status 66 Intermix 51, 54 internal data rate 11 internal defects/errors 41 internal drive characteristics 11 J J1 connector 45 J6 connector 46, 47 Jumper settings page command 56 jumpers 45 L latency average rotational... 55 loop position report FC-AL options 55 LS_RJT 51, 54 LSI circuitry 9 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev.
... 50 reject, code 04 50 G Good status 66 gradient 34 ground shift noise 71 grounding 48 H hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA) 45 HDA 48 heads read/write data 11 heat removal 47 host equipment 48 hot...condition met/good status 66 intermediate/good status 66 Intermix 51, 54 internal data rate 11 internal defects/errors 41 internal drive characteristics 11 J J1 connector 45 J6 connector 46, 47 Jumper settings page command 56 jumpers 45 L latency average rotational... 55 loop position report FC-AL options 55 LS_RJT 51, 54 LSI circuitry 9 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev.