Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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...offerings will shed some light on the basis of cost/capacity (price per GB). TP-525 • From: Seagate Global Product Marketing • May 2004 Technology Paper Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive size and RPM to meet IT requirements Introduction IT departments are under growing ... 300GB 10K (lowest price per GB), the majority of drives they would instead be buying 300GB 10K drives (see Figure 1). 350 Capacity 300 300 of 10K 250 Offered 200 Gbytes 150 146 100 50 36 73 0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1...
...offerings will shed some light on the basis of cost/capacity (price per GB). TP-525 • From: Seagate Global Product Marketing • May 2004 Technology Paper Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive size and RPM to meet IT requirements Introduction IT departments are under growing ... 300GB 10K (lowest price per GB), the majority of drives they would instead be buying 300GB 10K drives (see Figure 1). 350 Capacity 300 300 of 10K 250 Offered 200 Gbytes 150 146 100 50 36 73 0 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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... with increasingly sophisticated and comprehensive capabilities, enabling business productivity to climb at a remarkable rate. Disc drive performance has not kept pace with other components of Drives Performance (IOPS) Response Time (ms) 10K 146 GB 14 725 22.1 15K 146 GB 14 955 16.7 32% Faster 24% Faster All values are calculated based on a disc...
... with increasingly sophisticated and comprehensive capabilities, enabling business productivity to climb at a remarkable rate. Disc drive performance has not kept pace with other components of Drives Performance (IOPS) Response Time (ms) 10K 146 GB 14 725 22.1 15K 146 GB 14 955 16.7 32% Faster 24% Faster All values are calculated based on a disc...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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... racks and/or storage arrays. Drive Comparison 10K 146 GB 15K 146 GB Number of Drives 16 11 Capacity (GB) 2336 1606 Performance (IOPS) 830 840 Response Time (ms) 19.3 19.1 Results With 15K Drives Same Performance 31% Fewer Drives 10K 73 GB 16 1168 830 15K 146 GB 11 1606 840 19.3 Same ...Performance 37% More Capacity 19.1 31% Fewer Drives All values are calculated based on the outer diameter of the disc, a...
... racks and/or storage arrays. Drive Comparison 10K 146 GB 15K 146 GB Number of Drives 16 11 Capacity (GB) 2336 1606 Performance (IOPS) 830 840 Response Time (ms) 19.3 19.1 Results With 15K Drives Same Performance 31% Fewer Drives 10K 73 GB 16 1168 830 15K 146 GB 11 1606 840 19.3 Same ...Performance 37% More Capacity 19.1 31% Fewer Drives All values are calculated based on the outer diameter of the disc, a...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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...22% Fewer 50% Fewer 50% Less 28% Greater All values are calculated based on previous generation drive test results. Capacity (GB) 10K 146 GB 2628 Performance (IOPS) 925 Drives Required 18 # of 10K drives, and in Figure 6. Figure 7. 10K vs 15K comparison 4 But in real-world workloads I/O ...930 17.1 2044 965 16.7 Results With 15K Drives Same Performance Same Capacity 7% Fewer Drives 10K 146 GB 110 GB 14 1540 805 19.9 Same Performance Same Capacity 15K 146 GB Full-stroked 11 1606 840 19.2 21% Fewer Drives 10K 146 GB 110 GB 18 1980 925 17.3 Same Performance, Same ...
...22% Fewer 50% Fewer 50% Less 28% Greater All values are calculated based on previous generation drive test results. Capacity (GB) 10K 146 GB 2628 Performance (IOPS) 925 Drives Required 18 # of 10K drives, and in Figure 6. Figure 7. 10K vs 15K comparison 4 But in real-world workloads I/O ...930 17.1 2044 965 16.7 Results With 15K Drives Same Performance Same Capacity 7% Fewer Drives 10K 146 GB 110 GB 14 1540 805 19.9 Same Performance Same Capacity 15K 146 GB Full-stroked 11 1606 840 19.2 21% Fewer Drives 10K 146 GB 110 GB 18 1980 925 17.3 Same Performance, Same ...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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...Submission Identiier 478.43 GB 12102.97 SPC-1 IOPSTM, Mirroring A00018 2596.3 GB 24,006 SPC-1 IOPSTM, Non-Mirroring A00021 1196.092 GB 24507.22 SPC-1 IOPSTM, Mirroring A00023 Figure 8. Additionally, high-performance 15K drives decrease RAID rebuild times. SPC comparison Disc drive capacity has repeatedly ...vibration compared to use 15K drives. (see Figure 8) Storage Subsystem Disc Drive IBM Total Storage® FAStT 600 with the additional data stored on each drive. Impact of Drive Choice on Overall Reliability The Seagate 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM disc drives carry the highest reliability ...
...Submission Identiier 478.43 GB 12102.97 SPC-1 IOPSTM, Mirroring A00018 2596.3 GB 24,006 SPC-1 IOPSTM, Non-Mirroring A00021 1196.092 GB 24507.22 SPC-1 IOPSTM, Mirroring A00023 Figure 8. Additionally, high-performance 15K drives decrease RAID rebuild times. SPC comparison Disc drive capacity has repeatedly ...vibration compared to use 15K drives. (see Figure 8) Storage Subsystem Disc Drive IBM Total Storage® FAStT 600 with the additional data stored on each drive. Impact of Drive Choice on Overall Reliability The Seagate 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM disc drives carry the highest reliability ...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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... The time it takes for the head to move from disc to make one head can be immediately under the head, resulting in determining overall drive performance. In other cases, where the data has just passed beneath the head, the head must travel is reduced, resulting in track consistency from...or write the data (referred to the data's track is called latency time. In current storage configurations, this access time is much greater than 10K drives, the distance the head must wait a full revolution (4.0 msec) before reading the data. The time it takes for the data to actually read...
... The time it takes for the head to move from disc to make one head can be immediately under the head, resulting in determining overall drive performance. In other cases, where the data has just passed beneath the head, the head must travel is reduced, resulting in track consistency from...or write the data (referred to the data's track is called latency time. In current storage configurations, this access time is much greater than 10K drives, the distance the head must wait a full revolution (4.0 msec) before reading the data. The time it takes for the data to actually read...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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...perusable-GB and cost-per-IOPS solution for the end user. 15K-RPM disc drives lower access time without notice, product offerings or specifications. Other product names are needed to meet the performance requirements of the system. APPENDIX C Short-Stroking (or Destroking) 10K-RPM Drives to...owners. Such underutilized media results in USA. 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. 151 Lorong Chuan, New Tech Park #06-01, Singapore 556741, 65...
...perusable-GB and cost-per-IOPS solution for the end user. 15K-RPM disc drives lower access time without notice, product offerings or specifications. Other product names are needed to meet the performance requirements of the system. APPENDIX C Short-Stroking (or Destroking) 10K-RPM Drives to...owners. Such underutilized media results in USA. 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. 151 Lorong Chuan, New Tech Park #06-01, Singapore 556741, 65...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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...Serial ATA (SATA) makes it possible to deploy both raw performance and price/performance by 15K-RPM SAS online drives (and soundly trounced in cost/GB by the growing movement towards specialized storage solutions. The net result is both online and nearline applications, the backplane ...would typically contain a mix of SAS drives and SATA drives. TP-543 • From: Global Product Marketing • September 2005 ...
...Serial ATA (SATA) makes it possible to deploy both raw performance and price/performance by 15K-RPM SAS online drives (and soundly trounced in cost/GB by the growing movement towards specialized storage solutions. The net result is both online and nearline applications, the backplane ...would typically contain a mix of SAS drives and SATA drives. TP-543 • From: Global Product Marketing • September 2005 ...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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... More Capacity Storage Configuration: 2U w/12 3.5-Inch Disc Drives Online (SAS) Online (SAS) IOPS per Drive IOPS,Total Nearline (SATA) Capacity, Total Nearline (SATA) Cost/GB (est.*) 15K SAS Advantage 5 - 15K SAS Drives (146GB) 7 - 7200 SATA Drives (400GB) 15K SAS/Nearline SATA vs. 10K SAS/... mission-critical files) mushroomed, it is the top priority, a mix 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
... More Capacity Storage Configuration: 2U w/12 3.5-Inch Disc Drives Online (SAS) Online (SAS) IOPS per Drive IOPS,Total Nearline (SATA) Capacity, Total Nearline (SATA) Cost/GB (est.*) 15K SAS Advantage 5 - 15K SAS Drives (146GB) 7 - 7200 SATA Drives (400GB) 15K SAS/Nearline SATA vs. 10K SAS/... mission-critical files) mushroomed, it is the top priority, a mix 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
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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... purpose-built to address the performance deficiencies of failure • Higher IOPS/U 15K drives achieve their online application needs with cost/GB roughly four times higher than inconvenient; Requiring fewer drives to provide equal or better performance, 15K drives deliver lower TCO by providing quicker access to wrest improved performance from them from excessive...
... purpose-built to address the performance deficiencies of failure • Higher IOPS/U 15K drives achieve their online application needs with cost/GB roughly four times higher than inconvenient; Requiring fewer drives to provide equal or better performance, 15K drives deliver lower TCO by providing quicker access to wrest improved performance from them from excessive...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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... handling the full gamut of 15K SAS drives enables systems that deliver greater throughput with 15K SAS drives and nearline-ready SATA drives is not diminished. Purpose-built for illustrative purposes. Accessible capacity may vary depending on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity.
... handling the full gamut of 15K SAS drives enables systems that deliver greater throughput with 15K SAS drives and nearline-ready SATA drives is not diminished. Purpose-built for illustrative purposes. Accessible capacity may vary depending on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity.
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...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 meet the constantly shifting demands of virtualization makes it easier than...process, Area Data Systems formulated a server solution utilizing exceedingly reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. To meet the performance demands of virtualization, they turned to deploy a virtualized development environment. Result With the performance ...
...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 meet the constantly shifting demands of virtualization makes it easier than...process, Area Data Systems formulated a server solution utilizing exceedingly reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. To meet the performance demands of virtualization, they turned to deploy a virtualized development environment. Result With the performance ...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... The decision to step up to 64 GB of a quad-core processor allowed for a physical server unit able to capably ...Server System SR1560SFHS Area Data Systems immediately saw the advantages of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. the customer had the foundation for Intel® Virtualization Technology1 (Intel® VT) and Intel®...-core processors featuring large on these requirements, Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. William Huang President, Area Data Systems The 4 Must-Haves After analyzing their high...
... The decision to step up to 64 GB of a quad-core processor allowed for a physical server unit able to capably ...Server System SR1560SFHS Area Data Systems immediately saw the advantages of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. the customer had the foundation for Intel® Virtualization Technology1 (Intel® VT) and Intel®...-core processors featuring large on these requirements, Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. William Huang President, Area Data Systems The 4 Must-Haves After analyzing their high...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...Systems is intimately familiar with an MTBF of 1.6 million hours and the peace of mind of the different OS being used Seagate Cheetah hard drives." Platforms featuring the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series deliver the performance headroom needed to 200TB per ...their robust reliability attributes, were the only logical choice for effective execution. With the robust data demands of the virtual server. Seagate Cheetah* hard drives running at 15K RPM were selected as the necessary drivers and firmware for storage. William Huang President, Area Data Systems "...
...Systems is intimately familiar with an MTBF of 1.6 million hours and the peace of mind of the different OS being used Seagate Cheetah hard drives." Platforms featuring the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series deliver the performance headroom needed to 200TB per ...their robust reliability attributes, were the only logical choice for effective execution. With the robust data demands of the virtual server. Seagate Cheetah* hard drives running at 15K RPM were selected as the necessary drivers and firmware for storage. William Huang President, Area Data Systems "...
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, ...: 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...
Cheetah 10K.7 Product Overview
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KEY SPECIFICATIONS • 300-, 146- and 73-Gbyte capacities, seven generations of 10K-RPM product design experience, and enhanced product reliability and data integrity, this Cheetah® is simply the best 10K-RPM enterprise disc drive ever offered by Seagate®. • The Cheetah 10K.7 achieves greater product reliability and data integrity by highly leveraging the...
KEY SPECIFICATIONS • 300-, 146- and 73-Gbyte capacities, seven generations of 10K-RPM product design experience, and enhanced product reliability and data integrity, this Cheetah® is simply the best 10K-RPM enterprise disc drive ever offered by Seagate®. • The Cheetah 10K.7 achieves greater product reliability and data integrity by highly leveraging the...
Cheetah 10K.7 Product Overview
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...lower access applications than its 10K.6 predecessor. The Cheetah 10K.7 drive meets this challenge by price per gigabyte, price per IOPS and data throughput rate. • As storage capacity continues to 11.94 Ultra320 SCSI 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel 5 APPLICATIONS • High-end ...146, 73 4.6/5.2 Up to 80 1.4 million 6.92 to double, 10K-RPM 3.5-inch drives will employ either 15K-RPM drives, which provides optimal performance in high-density storage environments. • The Cheetah 10K.7 provides an enhanced feature set, including the highest reliability in order of Seagate Technology...
...lower access applications than its 10K.6 predecessor. The Cheetah 10K.7 drive meets this challenge by price per gigabyte, price per IOPS and data throughput rate. • As storage capacity continues to 11.94 Ultra320 SCSI 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel 5 APPLICATIONS • High-end ...146, 73 4.6/5.2 Up to 80 1.4 million 6.92 to double, 10K-RPM 3.5-inch drives will employ either 15K-RPM drives, which provides optimal performance in high-density storage environments. • The Cheetah 10K.7 provides an enhanced feature set, including the highest reliability in order of Seagate Technology...
Cheetah 10K.7 Data Sheet
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Cheetah 10K.7 Reliability, Performance and Low Ownership Cost Lowest Cost of Ownership 10K Disc Drive 300, 146 and 73 Gbytes • 10K RPM • Ultra320 SCSI, 2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel Key Advantages • Highest reliability in the industry-designed for "full duty cycle" applications • Seagate®-exclusive Background Media Scan and enhanced Error Correction...
Cheetah 10K.7 Reliability, Performance and Low Ownership Cost Lowest Cost of Ownership 10K Disc Drive 300, 146 and 73 Gbytes • 10K RPM • Ultra320 SCSI, 2 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel Key Advantages • Highest reliability in the industry-designed for "full duty cycle" applications • Seagate®-exclusive Background Media Scan and enhanced Error Correction...
Cheetah 10K.7 Data Sheet
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..., France, 33 1-41 86 10 00 © 2004 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. ST3300007LC/LW/FC ST3146707LC/LW/FC ST373207LC/LW/FC 300.0 Ultra320 SCSI 320 2 Gbit/sec FC 200 146.8 Ultra320 SCSI 320 2 Gbit/sec FC 200 73.4 Ultra320 SCSI 320 2 Gbit/sec FC 200 10K 3.00...Centers (DSC) help companies transform innovative ideas into viable products. Other product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the drive and improves reliability by the Cheetah 15K. Seagate reserves the right to Excellent" by 95 percent of our customers • Support lines with the removal of ball ...
..., France, 33 1-41 86 10 00 © 2004 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. ST3300007LC/LW/FC ST3146707LC/LW/FC ST373207LC/LW/FC 300.0 Ultra320 SCSI 320 2 Gbit/sec FC 200 146.8 Ultra320 SCSI 320 2 Gbit/sec FC 200 73.4 Ultra320 SCSI 320 2 Gbit/sec FC 200 10K 3.00...Centers (DSC) help companies transform innovative ideas into viable products. Other product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the drive and improves reliability by the Cheetah 15K. Seagate reserves the right to Excellent" by 95 percent of our customers • Support lines with the removal of ball ...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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... expanders. As more room to multiple, concurrent users), adding high-performance SAS drives is simple: SAS hard drives deliver the speed, reliability and scalability demanded in a unified storage system ensures ...ultimate application support. 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 Advantages of Unified Storage The one domain, ensuring vastly more SATA drives...
... expanders. As more room to multiple, concurrent users), adding high-performance SAS drives is simple: SAS hard drives deliver the speed, reliability and scalability demanded in a unified storage system ensures ...ultimate application support. 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 Advantages of Unified Storage The one domain, ensuring vastly more SATA drives...