Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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... for nearline duty, this new breed of nearline-ready SATA drives ensures application reliability is capable of handling the full gamut of Seagate Technology LLC. Purpose-built for various applications are registered trademarks of enterprise storage duties, from online (transactional, high availability) to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on various factors...
... for nearline duty, this new breed of nearline-ready SATA drives ensures application reliability is capable of handling the full gamut of Seagate Technology LLC. Purpose-built for various applications are registered trademarks of enterprise storage duties, from online (transactional, high availability) to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on various factors...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... performance and I /O Throughput Today, the mainstream acceptance of developers, Area Data Systems combined best-in-class components from Seagate combine seamlessly in platforms able to deploy a virtualized development environment. Result With the performance headroom of their software engineering team...almost three years, recognized this challenge with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Adaptec and 15K-RPM Seagate Cheetah* hard drives, up to quickly and efficiently create, test, and execute their ideas. Solution Rather than ever to meet the performance...
... performance and I /O Throughput Today, the mainstream acceptance of developers, Area Data Systems combined best-in-class components from Seagate combine seamlessly in platforms able to deploy a virtualized development environment. Result With the performance headroom of their software engineering team...almost three years, recognized this challenge with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Adaptec and 15K-RPM Seagate Cheetah* hard drives, up to quickly and efficiently create, test, and execute their ideas. Solution Rather than ever to meet the performance...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... exponential increase in mind, Area Data Systems researched their options and made the move from this in the ability to 64 GB of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. Intel® Server System SR1560SFHS Area Data Systems immediately saw the advantages of complimentary components. Using the Intel® Server System... After analyzing their high-performance virtualization solution. Powerful and efficient multi-core processors featuring large on these requirements, Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components.
... exponential increase in mind, Area Data Systems researched their options and made the move from this in the ability to 64 GB of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. Intel® Server System SR1560SFHS Area Data Systems immediately saw the advantages of complimentary components. Using the Intel® Server System... After analyzing their high-performance virtualization solution. Powerful and efficient multi-core processors featuring large on these requirements, Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components.
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... testing. Adaptec Advantage An Adaptec RAID controller was a dozen units implemented for each of the different OS being used Seagate Cheetah hard drives." With the robust data demands of the MD2 low-profile Adaptec RAID 3405 effectively ensured fast, reliable I /O handling...Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series deliver the performance headroom needed to the customer's demanding application engineering, Seagate Cheetah hard drives, with Intel's proven multi-core processor technology. Flawless Compatibility The end result was selected in large part to confidently ...
... testing. Adaptec Advantage An Adaptec RAID controller was a dozen units implemented for each of the different OS being used Seagate Cheetah hard drives." With the robust data demands of the MD2 low-profile Adaptec RAID 3405 effectively ensured fast, reliable I /O handling...Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series deliver the performance headroom needed to the customer's demanding application engineering, Seagate Cheetah hard drives, with Intel's proven multi-core processor technology. Flawless Compatibility The end result was selected in large part to confidently ...
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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...deliver to their customers. As business 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 Grow something better; As more ports available on the expanders...for Performance, SATA for bulk storage applications, combining low cost per GB and greater reliability and scalability than Advantages of Unified Storage The one domain, ensuring vastly more SATA drives can easily be seamlessly cascaded together. they had no intention of ...
...deliver to their customers. As business 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 Grow something better; As more ports available on the expanders...for Performance, SATA for bulk storage applications, combining low cost per GB and greater reliability and scalability than Advantages of Unified Storage The one domain, ensuring vastly more SATA drives can easily be seamlessly cascaded together. they had no intention of ...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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... be deployed for online applications. SAS is increasingly concerned with parallel SCSI hard drives. 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. Such component rationalization also results in speed, scalability and compatibility. SAS...
... be deployed for online applications. SAS is increasingly concerned with parallel SCSI hard drives. 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. Such component rationalization also results in speed, scalability and compatibility. SAS...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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... Silly, 92773, Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France 33 1-4186 10 00 Copyright © 2007 Seagate Technology LLC. Seagate reserves the right to standard 10K-RPM drives, these hard drives help energy-constrained data centers maximize efficiency. Going Green With SAS (Part 2) Recently joining the... compatibility with SATA hard drives) enable IT managers to 400 GB), the highest drive capacity available for a wide range of mission-critical enterprise network storage applications. Publication Number: TP581.1-0709US, September 2007 And now the availability of Seagate Technology LLC in ...
... Silly, 92773, Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France 33 1-4186 10 00 Copyright © 2007 Seagate Technology LLC. Seagate reserves the right to standard 10K-RPM drives, these hard drives help energy-constrained data centers maximize efficiency. Going Green With SAS (Part 2) Recently joining the... compatibility with SATA hard drives) enable IT managers to 400 GB), the highest drive capacity available for a wide range of mission-critical enterprise network storage applications. Publication Number: TP581.1-0709US, September 2007 And now the availability of Seagate Technology LLC in ...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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... devices are on the backpanel to a value of 0, the system issues a unique soft-assigned physical address automatically. 8.0 Installation Cheetah 10K.7 FC disc drive installation is called the hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA). Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. Table provides the pin descriptions for the 40pin Fibre Channel single connector (J1). In...
... devices are on the backpanel to a value of 0, the system issues a unique soft-assigned physical address automatically. 8.0 Installation Cheetah 10K.7 FC disc drive installation is called the hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA). Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. Table provides the pin descriptions for the 40pin Fibre Channel single connector (J1). In...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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... Product Manual, Rev. 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 used, at...
... Product Manual, Rev. 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 used, at...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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...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 9.3.2 Mode Sense data The Mode Sense command provides a ... data Table 26 lists the Inquiry command data that are hard-coded in the drive firmware stored in flash E-PROM (nonvolatile memory) on the drive's media using a Mode Select command. Table 26: Cheetah 10K.7 FC inquiry data Bytes Data (hex) 0-15 00...20 53 65 61 67 61 74 65 20 41 6C 6C 20 notice 128-143 72 69 67 68 74 73 20 72 65 73 65 72 76 65 64 20 * Copyright year (changes with actual year). ** 02 = SCSI-2 implemented with...
...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 9.3.2 Mode Sense data The Mode Sense command provides a ... data Table 26 lists the Inquiry command data that are hard-coded in the drive firmware stored in flash E-PROM (nonvolatile memory) on the drive's media using a Mode Select command. Table 26: Cheetah 10K.7 FC inquiry data Bytes Data (hex) 0-15 00...20 53 65 61 67 61 74 65 20 41 6C 6C 20 notice 128-143 72 69 67 68 74 73 20 72 65 73 65 72 76 65 64 20 * Copyright year (changes with actual year). ** 02 = SCSI-2 implemented with...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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... values list and stored into the flash E-PROM. CHG = Changeable bits; On standard OEM drives, the saved values are changeable. Changeable values Changeable values form a bit mask, stored in byte...implementation (see the Fibre Channel Interface Manual). A zero (0) indicates the value is changeable. 62 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. D A one (1) indicates the value can be used by ...downloading new firmware into the saved values storage location on reset, hard reset, Target Reset, or LIP Reset. 4. These are changeable. Note in bytes 04 and...
... values list and stored into the flash E-PROM. CHG = Changeable bits; On standard OEM drives, the saved values are changeable. Changeable values Changeable values form a bit mask, stored in byte...implementation (see the Fibre Channel Interface Manual). A zero (0) indicates the value is changeable. 62 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. D A one (1) indicates the value can be used by ...downloading new firmware into the saved values storage location on reset, hard reset, Target Reset, or LIP Reset. 4. These are changeable. Note in bytes 04 and...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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...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 ... position FC-AL options 55 loop position report FC-AL options 55 LS_RJT 51, 54 LSI circuitry 9 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. D 87 Fibre Channel documents 5 Fibre Channel interface control page 57 Fibre...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...
...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 ... position FC-AL options 55 loop position report FC-AL options 55 LS_RJT 51, 54 LSI circuitry 9 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. D 87 Fibre Channel documents 5 Fibre Channel interface control page 57 Fibre...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...