SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition (258K, PDF)
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...and small form factor SAS technology in the channel. As our matrix in this change has been underway in the server and storage business for hard drives in servers and storage products- In fact, by mid-2009 the SCSI interface will be produced by the industry's leading...distributors to bring you business opportunities and bundles with other manufacturers have already moved their product lines in this new market. Small Form Factor SAS- Seagate is that are not currently building servers or storage systems, now is the time to add SAS servers and storage systems to you and, ...
...and small form factor SAS technology in the channel. As our matrix in this change has been underway in the server and storage business for hard drives in servers and storage products- In fact, by mid-2009 the SCSI interface will be produced by the industry's leading...distributors to bring you business opportunities and bundles with other manufacturers have already moved their product lines in this new market. Small Form Factor SAS- Seagate is that are not currently building servers or storage systems, now is the time to add SAS servers and storage systems to you and, ...
SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition (258K, PDF)
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... 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Copyright © 2008 Seagate Technology LLC. Cheetah and Savvio are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. When referring to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. All other ... listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of their respective owners. All rights ...
... 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 Copyright © 2008 Seagate Technology LLC. Cheetah and Savvio are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. When referring to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. All other ... listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of their respective owners. All rights ...
Storage Strategies for Server Virtualization
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... can reduce drive power consumption by more . The efficient design of 7200-RPM drives dramatically reduces per-drive costs, and capacity per gigabyte at the cost of some applications. For example, the Seagate® Constellation™ drive delivers up distinctly superior to notebook hard drives. Today's ...inchbased storage systems offer tiered storage options. Tiered storage makes it possible to blend high-performance 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM hard drives with server virtualization. Several systems available from the ground up to 50 0GB, SAS and SATA interfaces, and an enterprise...
... can reduce drive power consumption by more . The efficient design of 7200-RPM drives dramatically reduces per-drive costs, and capacity per gigabyte at the cost of some applications. For example, the Seagate® Constellation™ drive delivers up distinctly superior to notebook hard drives. Today's ...inchbased storage systems offer tiered storage options. Tiered storage makes it possible to blend high-performance 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM hard drives with server virtualization. Several systems available from the ground up to 50 0GB, SAS and SATA interfaces, and an enterprise...
Storage Strategies for Server Virtualization
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... is either a trademark or registered trademark of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. Here are a few common mistakes to avoid: • Migrating legacy storage architectures (and cost structures) to a new virtual environment • Underestimating data growth, or trying to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte...
... is either a trademark or registered trademark of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. Here are a few common mistakes to avoid: • Migrating legacy storage architectures (and cost structures) to a new virtual environment • Underestimating data growth, or trying to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... of new Intel-technology based platforms combined with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Intel, Adaptec and Seagate. Unfortunately, code building and application testing can quickly consume the available resources of virtualization. In the past, developers and IT... 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 't grow beyond physical development environments and ...
... of new Intel-technology based platforms combined with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Intel, Adaptec and Seagate. Unfortunately, code building and application testing can quickly consume the available resources of virtualization. In the past, developers and IT... 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 't grow beyond physical development environments and ...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... analyzing their decision to handle all the virtual machines running on these requirements, Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. Powerful and efficient multi-core processors featuring large on-die L2 caches and fast front side bus speeds would be ... I/O Performance. At least 16 GB of the customer's diverse and constantly shifting code-development and application testing needs, there was a natural one- The decision to step up to capably handle multiple virtual machines. Fast and reliable hot-swappable hard drives with high capacities would be needed ...
... analyzing their decision to handle all the virtual machines running on these requirements, Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. Powerful and efficient multi-core processors featuring large on-die L2 caches and fast front side bus speeds would be ... I/O Performance. At least 16 GB of the customer's diverse and constantly shifting code-development and application testing needs, there was a natural one- The decision to step up to capably handle multiple virtual machines. Fast and reliable hot-swappable hard drives with high capacities would be needed ...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... effective execution. The customer's stringent reliability requirements were also satisfied with an MTBF of 1.6 million hours and the peace of mind of the Seagate five-year limited warranty. Seagate Cheetah* hard drives running virtualization software as well as the necessary drivers and firmware for storage. Flawless Compatibility The end result was selected in running at...
... effective execution. The customer's stringent reliability requirements were also satisfied with an MTBF of 1.6 million hours and the peace of mind of the Seagate five-year limited warranty. Seagate Cheetah* hard drives running virtualization software as well as the necessary drivers and firmware for storage. Flawless Compatibility The end result was selected in running at...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... and high I/O bandwidth-critical features for virtualization technology. Intel's latest generation 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... 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...
... and high I/O bandwidth-critical features for virtualization technology. Intel's latest generation 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... 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...
Cheetah 15K.7 Product Overview
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... Description Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 drives reduce costs for expired lease, repair or warranty. *Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support Specifications Capacity Interface Spindle Speed Reliability Cache Form factor 600, 450, 300 GB 6 Gb/s SAS 2.0, 4 Gb/s FC...Cheetah and PowerTrim are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. Seagate reserves the right to 600 GB of their respective owners. SAS 2.0 was developed to provide additional signal and data integrity features to enable SAS to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB...
... Description Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 drives reduce costs for expired lease, repair or warranty. *Requires TCG-compliant host or controller support Specifications Capacity Interface Spindle Speed Reliability Cache Form factor 600, 450, 300 GB 6 Gb/s SAS 2.0, 4 Gb/s FC...Cheetah and PowerTrim are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. Seagate reserves the right to 600 GB of their respective owners. SAS 2.0 was developed to provide additional signal and data integrity features to enable SAS to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB...
Cheetah 15K.7 Data Sheet
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...Sheet Cheetah® 15K.7 Highest capacity, performance and reliability in 3.5-inch mission-critical storage 600, 450 and 300 GB • 15K RPM • 6-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4-Gb/s FC Key Advantages • Third-generation perpendicular recording delivers up to 600 GB. &#... increase over last generation • Industry's highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6-million-hours MTBF • Seagate PowerTrim™ technology provides a 62 percent improvement in GBs/watt at idle over typical 3.5-inch hard drives. • Read/write advances deliver nonrecoverable error rate of...
...Sheet Cheetah® 15K.7 Highest capacity, performance and reliability in 3.5-inch mission-critical storage 600, 450 and 300 GB • 15K RPM • 6-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and 4-Gb/s FC Key Advantages • Third-generation perpendicular recording delivers up to 600 GB. &#... increase over last generation • Industry's highest 3.5-inch drive reliability at 1.6-million-hours MTBF • Seagate PowerTrim™ technology provides a 62 percent improvement in GBs/watt at idle over typical 3.5-inch hard drives. • Read/write advances deliver nonrecoverable error rate of...
Cheetah 15K.7 Data Sheet
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...incipient errors to focus on reliability and data protection. Specifications 600 GB1 450 GB1 300 GB1 Model Number Capacity Formatted 512 Kbytes/Sector (GB) External Transfer Rate (MB/s) 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel 6-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI Performance Spindle Speed (RPM) Average Latency (ms) Seek Time ... need for fewer drives Highest Reliability • Seagate continues to be corrected before data is the fastest, highest capacity and most reliable ever. • Cheetah 15K.7 drive performance and reliability enable lower TCO for enterprise applications. • Lower watts/GB ratio helps achieve...
...incipient errors to focus on reliability and data protection. Specifications 600 GB1 450 GB1 300 GB1 Model Number Capacity Formatted 512 Kbytes/Sector (GB) External Transfer Rate (MB/s) 4-Gb/s Fibre Channel 6-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI Performance Spindle Speed (RPM) Average Latency (ms) Seek Time ... need for fewer drives Highest Reliability • Seagate continues to be corrected before data is the fastest, highest capacity and most reliable ever. • Cheetah 15K.7 drive performance and reliability enable lower TCO for enterprise applications. • Lower watts/GB ratio helps achieve...
Enterprise-Optimized 6Gb/s SAS Rivals Fibre Channel Performance and Scalability at Lower Cost
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...clear According to rival FC solutions in many other targeted poses a difficult challenge for a variety of network storage While its blazing 6-Gb/s transfer rate (double architectures used in enterprise data centers: that of the previous generation) is a compelling, cost-effective rival to ...professionals, who are many network storage applications. What's more, 6Gb/s SAS does so while retaining compatibility with earlier SAS and SATA hard drives. • JBOD/RAID (just-a-bunch-of-disks/redundant array of enterprise storage environments-at Lower Cost Leading Edge = First Plug-...
...clear According to rival FC solutions in many other targeted poses a difficult challenge for a variety of network storage While its blazing 6-Gb/s transfer rate (double architectures used in enterprise data centers: that of the previous generation) is a compelling, cost-effective rival to ...professionals, who are many network storage applications. What's more, 6Gb/s SAS does so while retaining compatibility with earlier SAS and SATA hard drives. • JBOD/RAID (just-a-bunch-of-disks/redundant array of enterprise storage environments-at Lower Cost Leading Edge = First Plug-...
Enterprise-Optimized 6Gb/s SAS Rivals Fibre Channel Performance and Scalability at Lower Cost
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...Lower Cost 6Gb/s SAS: Performance, flexibility and value in affordable and easy-to-manage storage environments Feature Function Benefit 6-Gb/s transfer rate Enables enterprise-class performance at 2x the throughput of vendor-specific, and frequently incompatible, ways that result ... developed by the consensus of the International Committee on mini SAS connectors Investment protection Retains compatibility with earlier SAS/SATA hard drives and SCSI software/ middleware Management efficiencies Utilizes existing IT SCSI expertise Figure 2. Utilizing denial of service and device access...
...Lower Cost 6Gb/s SAS: Performance, flexibility and value in affordable and easy-to-manage storage environments Feature Function Benefit 6-Gb/s transfer rate Enables enterprise-class performance at 2x the throughput of vendor-specific, and frequently incompatible, ways that result ... developed by the consensus of the International Committee on mini SAS connectors Investment protection Retains compatibility with earlier SAS/SATA hard drives and SCSI software/ middleware Management efficiencies Utilizes existing IT SCSI expertise Figure 2. Utilizing denial of service and device access...
Enterprise-Optimized 6Gb/s SAS Rivals Fibre Channel Performance and Scalability at Lower Cost
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.... Printed in the United States and/or other countries. TP603.1-0905US, May 2009 Standardizing on small form factor (SFF) 2.5-inch hard drives. Graphics copyrighted by SCSI Trade Association, courtesy of Molex. Such compatibility is also retained. The arrival of 6Gb/s SAS provides a... 6Gb/s SAS delivers a far simpler and more storage capacity and speed, the steep cost and complexity of Seagate Technology LLC in USA. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are becoming increasingly commonplace through their use on mini-SAS connectors is particularly appropriate ...
.... Printed in the United States and/or other countries. TP603.1-0905US, May 2009 Standardizing on small form factor (SFF) 2.5-inch hard drives. Graphics copyrighted by SCSI Trade Association, courtesy of Molex. Such compatibility is also retained. The arrival of 6Gb/s SAS provides a... 6Gb/s SAS delivers a far simpler and more storage capacity and speed, the steep cost and complexity of Seagate Technology LLC in USA. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are becoming increasingly commonplace through their use on mini-SAS connectors is particularly appropriate ...
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual
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... - 2.37 15k 2.0 ST3300657FC ST3300557FC 300 4 165,000 1,361 225 1.49 - 2.37 15k 2.0 Gbytes (formatted, rounded off value)* TPI KBPI Gbits/inch2 Gbits/sec (max) RPM msec *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev.... Accessible capacity may need to format a SED drive versus a non-SED drive of the same capacity. 4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information...
... - 2.37 15k 2.0 ST3300657FC ST3300557FC 300 4 165,000 1,361 225 1.49 - 2.37 15k 2.0 Gbytes (formatted, rounded off value)* TPI KBPI Gbits/inch2 Gbits/sec (max) RPM msec *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev.... Accessible capacity may need to format a SED drive versus a non-SED drive of the same capacity. 4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information...
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual
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...43 The loop initialization process is performed when power is applied to the drive, when a device is a plug-and-play process. Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. If you want to select drive ID and all option selections in the connector prior to applying power to... to select a different logical block size. 9.1 Drive ID/option selection All drive options are 125 AL_PAs available (see Table 27). The drive is called the hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA). 9.0 Installation Cheetah 15K.7 FC disc drive installation is added or removed from the factory low...
...43 The loop initialization process is performed when power is applied to the drive, when a device is a plug-and-play process. Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. If you want to select drive ID and all option selections in the connector prior to applying power to... to select a different logical block size. 9.1 Drive ID/option selection All drive options are 125 AL_PAs available (see Table 27). The drive is called the hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA). 9.0 Installation Cheetah 15K.7 FC disc drive installation is added or removed from the factory low...
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual
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... on independent loops or on independent loops and hard addressing is used , at least one port will attempt taking a soft address to buffer availability, the Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support: • Concurrent port transfers-The drive supports receiving transfers on both ports at the same... frames on both ports are connected in the same loop and hard addressing 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...
... on independent loops or on independent loops and hard addressing is used , at least one port will attempt taking a soft address to buffer availability, the Cheetah 15K.7 FC drives support: • Concurrent port transfers-The drive supports receiving transfers on both ports at the same... frames on both ports are connected in the same loop and hard addressing 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...
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual
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PP 50 = Inquiry data for an Inquiry command received on Port A. 70 = Inquiry data for mode pages supported. [4] Y = Yes. Default values Default values are hard-coded in the drive firmware stored in the saved values list that are allowed to be changed can request and receive from the media and stores them as... SPC release documentation for definitions. Table 17: Bytes 0-15 16-31 32-47 48-63 64-79 80-95 96-111 112-127 128-143 Cheetah 15K.7 FC inquiry data Data (hex) 00 00 xx** 12 8B 00 PP 02 53 45 41 47 41 [53 54 33 36 30 30...
PP 50 = Inquiry data for an Inquiry command received on Port A. 70 = Inquiry data for mode pages supported. [4] Y = Yes. Default values Default values are hard-coded in the drive firmware stored in the saved values list that are allowed to be changed can request and receive from the media and stores them as... SPC release documentation for definitions. Table 17: Bytes 0-15 16-31 32-47 48-63 64-79 80-95 96-111 112-127 128-143 Cheetah 15K.7 FC inquiry data Data (hex) 00 00 xx** 12 8B 00 PP 02 53 45 41 47 41 [53 54 33 36 30 30...
Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual
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On standard OEM drives, the saved values are taken from saved or default values after a power on reset, hard reset, or Bus Device Reset message. 4. Current values... 81, in Table 18, refer to the binary pattern 11111111. A zero (0) indicates the value is changeable. 58 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. Note in columns 5 and 6 (bytes 04 and 05), there is a zero... value. A Mode Select command can only be changed . The changeable values list can be changed by the drive in bytes 04 and 05 none of the data bytes returned by a Mode Select command. Because there are changeable...
On standard OEM drives, the saved values are taken from saved or default values after a power on reset, hard reset, or Bus Device Reset message. 4. Current values... 81, in Table 18, refer to the binary pattern 11111111. A zero (0) indicates the value is changeable. 58 Cheetah 15K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. Note in columns 5 and 6 (bytes 04 and 05), there is a zero... value. A Mode Select command can only be changed . The changeable values list can be changed by the drive in bytes 04 and 05 none of the data bytes returned by a Mode Select command. Because there are changeable...
Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual
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... 7.4 1. Access to hard drive capacity. 4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Cheetah 15K.7 drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics Drive capacity ST3600057SS ST3450857SS ST3300657SS ST3600957SS ST3450757SS ST3300557SS 600 450 300 Gbytes (formatted, rounded ... *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to data = access time + latency time. 8 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 4.2 ...
... 7.4 1. Access to hard drive capacity. 4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Cheetah 15K.7 drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics Drive capacity ST3600057SS ST3450857SS ST3300657SS ST3600957SS ST3450757SS ST3300557SS 600 450 300 Gbytes (formatted, rounded ... *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to data = access time + latency time. 8 Cheetah 15K.7 SAS Product Manual, Rev. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. 4.2 ...
