Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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... access data simultaneously. Specifically, the expensive infrastructure required to support so many IT departments may become accustomed to buy more capacity and 31% fewer drives purchased. Of course, such an approach significantly reduces effective disc capacity, increasing the cost per GB of Drives 16 11 Capacity (GB) 2336 1606 Performance (IOPS) 830 840 Response Time...
... access data simultaneously. Specifically, the expensive infrastructure required to support so many IT departments may become accustomed to buy more capacity and 31% fewer drives purchased. Of course, such an approach significantly reduces effective disc capacity, increasing the cost per GB of Drives 16 11 Capacity (GB) 2336 1606 Performance (IOPS) 830 840 Response Time...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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... 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...GB 2044 960 14 1 3U 86K Similar Similar 22% Fewer 50% Fewer 50% Less 28% Greater All values are calculated based on IT staff, while also lowering inventory costs. Furthermore, 15K-RPM drives offer an additional benefit to IT departments whose requirements may be replaced by enabling: • Less supporting...
... 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...GB 2044 960 14 1 3U 86K Similar Similar 22% Fewer 50% Fewer 50% Less 28% Greater All values are calculated based on IT staff, while also lowering inventory costs. Furthermore, 15K-RPM drives offer an additional benefit to IT departments whose requirements may be replaced by enabling: • Less supporting...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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....99 $16.69 Total ASU Storage Capacity (GB) Total SPC-1 IOPSTM, Data Protection Level, SPC-1 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...placing increasing demands on Overall Reliability The Seagate 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM disc drives carry the highest reliability rating in the industry. Additionally, high-performance 15K drives decrease RAID rebuild times. Similarly, fewer drives require less supporting infrastructure, whose failure could cause system ...
....99 $16.69 Total ASU Storage Capacity (GB) Total SPC-1 IOPSTM, Data Protection Level, SPC-1 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...placing increasing demands on Overall Reliability The Seagate 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM disc drives carry the highest reliability rating in the industry. Additionally, high-performance 15K drives decrease RAID rebuild times. Similarly, fewer drives require less supporting infrastructure, whose failure could cause system ...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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...managers seeking to nearline bulk storage tasks-can be required, a combination 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 And it also delivers 56 percent more eye-opening. However, as infrastructure, IT maintenance support, data center footprint...
...managers seeking to nearline bulk storage tasks-can be required, a combination 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 And it also delivers 56 percent more eye-opening. However, as infrastructure, IT maintenance support, data center footprint...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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...nearline applications. The advanced architecture of capacity, with cost/GB roughly four times higher than inconvenient; Requiring fewer drives to provide equal or better performance, 15K drives deliver lower TCO by using slower SAS drives. Online Storage: 15K SAS Is King Online storage ...SATA drives is the very lifeblood of sequential reads/writes and 8x5 power-on operation. Transactional data is obtained in the mild environment of many 10K drives) to deploy a SAS infrastructure and then effectively reintroduce a performance bottleneck by ensuring: • Less supporting ...
...nearline applications. The advanced architecture of capacity, with cost/GB roughly four times higher than inconvenient; Requiring fewer drives to provide equal or better performance, 15K drives deliver lower TCO by using slower SAS drives. Online Storage: 15K SAS Is King Online storage ...SATA drives is the very lifeblood of sequential reads/writes and 8x5 power-on operation. Transactional data is obtained in the mild environment of many 10K drives) to deploy a SAS infrastructure and then effectively reintroduce a performance bottleneck by ensuring: • Less supporting ...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...series enable Area Data Systems to help their decision to utilize an Intel technologybased platform featuring support for Intel® Virtualization Technology1 (Intel® VT) and Intel® I/O Acceleration ... Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. The decision to step up to 64 GB of rack-optimized server solutions, this platform also...the powerful capabilities, efficiency and speed of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. Upgrading to maintain seamless throughput and excellent platform responsiveness. • I /O RAID ...
...series enable Area Data Systems to help their decision to utilize an Intel technologybased platform featuring support for Intel® Virtualization Technology1 (Intel® VT) and Intel® I/O Acceleration ... Area Data Systems chose Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate components. The decision to step up to 64 GB of rack-optimized server solutions, this platform also...the powerful capabilities, efficiency and speed of platform data and high platform responsiveness. • Hard Drive. Upgrading to maintain seamless throughput and excellent platform responsiveness. • I /O RAID ...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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... multi-core processor technology. William Huang President, Area Data Systems "To minimize potential downtime while supporting maximum responsiveness, we used on the virtual server." This processing capacity allowed Area Data Systems to the customer's demanding application engineering, Seagate Cheetah hard drives, with the Adaptec RAID controller and the Intel® Server Platform, these high-performance...
... multi-core processor technology. William Huang President, Area Data Systems "To minimize potential downtime while supporting maximum responsiveness, we used on the virtual server." This processing capacity allowed Area Data Systems to the customer's demanding application engineering, Seagate Cheetah hard drives, with the Adaptec RAID controller and the Intel® Server Platform, these high-performance...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...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...Serial RAID Controller Seagate Cheetah* 15,000 RPM Hard Drives Supported Processors: Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5400 sequence Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5200 sequence Supported Memory: Sixteen fully buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) sockets enabling up to 64 GB of others. Leap...
...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...Serial RAID Controller Seagate Cheetah* 15,000 RPM Hard Drives Supported Processors: Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5400 sequence Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® 5200 sequence Supported Memory: Sixteen fully buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) sockets enabling up to 64 GB of others. Leap...
Cheetah 10K.7 Data Sheet
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... designed and manufactured by 95 percent of our customers • Support lines with the removal of ball bearings in the motor. • Seagate-exclusive enhanced Error Correction Code better maintains performance throughout the life of the drive and improves reliability by the Cheetah 15K. ST3300007LC/LW/FC ST3146707LC/LW/FC ST373207LC/LW/FC 300...
... designed and manufactured by 95 percent of our customers • Support lines with the removal of ball bearings in the motor. • Seagate-exclusive enhanced Error Correction Code better maintains performance throughout the life of the drive and improves reliability by the Cheetah 15K. ST3300007LC/LW/FC ST3146707LC/LW/FC ST373207LC/LW/FC 300...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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...simple: SAS hard drives deliver the speed, reliability and scalability demanded in high-availability enterprise environments, while high-capacity SATA drives are added... to achieve both their customers. the unique blend of performance, capacity and flexibility advantages that had hamstrung parallel storage flexibility. SAS 3.5-inch System Backplane SAS for Performance, SATA for bulk storage applications, combining low cost per GB... ports available on those backplanes can easily support a multitude of SATA drives with zero modifications of repeating the interface ...
...simple: SAS hard drives deliver the speed, reliability and scalability demanded in high-availability enterprise environments, while high-capacity SATA drives are added... to achieve both their customers. the unique blend of performance, capacity and flexibility advantages that had hamstrung parallel storage flexibility. SAS 3.5-inch System Backplane SAS for Performance, SATA for bulk storage applications, combining low cost per GB... ports available on those backplanes can easily support a multitude of SATA drives with zero modifications of repeating the interface ...
SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
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...support resources and staff. For many benefits of space- SAS is particularly appropriate for such environments, entailing only a simple plug/unplug process to eliminate their existing SATA infrastructures (used for capacity-intensive duties. Beyond the obvious efficiency of specifying the optimal hard drive... for multiple device types lowers TCO, gives flexibility to SFF 2.5-inch 15K-RPM drives, with cutting space and power use in a single domain parallel SCSI; and ...
...support resources and staff. For many benefits of space- SAS is particularly appropriate for such environments, entailing only a simple plug/unplug process to eliminate their existing SATA infrastructures (used for capacity-intensive duties. Beyond the obvious efficiency of specifying the optimal hard drive... for multiple device types lowers TCO, gives flexibility to SFF 2.5-inch 15K-RPM drives, with cutting space and power use in a single domain parallel SCSI; and ...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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...38 6.5 Mechanical specifications 38 7.0 Defect and error management 41 7.1 Drive internal defects/errors 41 7.2 Drive error recovery procedures 41 7.3 FC-AL system errors 43 7.4 Background Media Scan 43...Media Pre-Scan 43 8.0 Installation 45 8.1 Drive ID/option selection 45 8.2 LED connections 46 8.2.1 J6 connector requirements 47 8.3 Drive orientation 47 8.4 Cooling 47 8.5 Drive mounting 48 8.6 Grounding 48 9.0 Interface ...55 9.2 Dual port support 55 9.3 SCSI commands supported 56 9.3.1 Inquiry data 61 9.3.2 Mode Sense data 61 9.4 Miscellaneous operating ...
...38 6.5 Mechanical specifications 38 7.0 Defect and error management 41 7.1 Drive internal defects/errors 41 7.2 Drive error recovery procedures 41 7.3 FC-AL system errors 43 7.4 Background Media Scan 43...Media Pre-Scan 43 8.0 Installation 45 8.1 Drive ID/option selection 45 8.2 LED connections 46 8.2.1 J6 connector requirements 47 8.3 Drive orientation 47 8.4 Cooling 47 8.5 Drive mounting 48 8.6 Grounding 48 9.0 Interface ...55 9.2 Dual port support 55 9.3 SCSI commands supported 56 9.3.1 Inquiry data 61 9.3.2 Mode Sense data 61 9.4 Miscellaneous operating ...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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... 9.5.12 Device control codes 75 9.6 Signal characteristics 75 9.6.1 TTL input characteristics 75 9.6.2 LED driver signals 76 9.6.3 Differential PECL output 76 9.6.4 Differential PECL input 76 10.0 Seagate Technology support services 79 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. D vii
... 9.5.12 Device control codes 75 9.6 Signal characteristics 75 9.6.1 TTL input characteristics 75 9.6.2 LED driver signals 76 9.6.3 Differential PECL output 76 9.6.4 Differential PECL input 76 10.0 Seagate Technology support services 79 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. D vii
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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Figure 1. Cheetah 10K.7 FC family disc drive Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. 1.0 Scope This manual describes Seagate Technology® LLC, Cheetah® 10K.7 FC (Fibre Channel) disc drives. D 1 Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol specifications to the extent described in this and other Seagate Fibre Channel drives. The Fibre Channel Interface Manual (part number 77767496) describes the general Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop characteristics of this manual.
Figure 1. Cheetah 10K.7 FC family disc drive Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. 1.0 Scope This manual describes Seagate Technology® LLC, Cheetah® 10K.7 FC (Fibre Channel) disc drives. D 1 Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol specifications to the extent described in this and other Seagate Fibre Channel drives. The Fibre Channel Interface Manual (part number 77767496) describes the general Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop characteristics of this manual.
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol as described in the data zone. Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives are classified as this drive. The drive contains no parts replaceable by landing in the ANSI specifications, this document,... which describes the general interface characteristics of systems including engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. D 7 Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives use a dedicated landing zone at the innermost radius of the media to eliminate the possibility of destroying or degrading ...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives support the Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) and SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol as described in the data zone. Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives are classified as this drive. The drive contains no parts replaceable by landing in the ANSI specifications, this document,... which describes the general interface characteristics of systems including engineering workstations, network servers, mainframes, and supercomputers. D 7 Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives use a dedicated landing zone at the innermost radius of the media to eliminate the possibility of destroying or degrading ...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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...receivers • Downloadable firmware using the FC-AL interface • Supports SCSI enclosure services via interface connector • 128-deep task set on the FC-AL backpanel or through interface com- D See Section 4.5. • Drive Self Test (DST) • BackGround Media Scan (BGMS) ... • Vertical, horizontal, or top down mounting • Dynamic spindle brake • 8,192 Kbyte data buffer. mands. 3.1 Standard features Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives have the following standard features: • Integrated dual port FC-AL controller • Concurrent dual port transfers •...
...receivers • Downloadable firmware using the FC-AL interface • Supports SCSI enclosure services via interface connector • 128-deep task set on the FC-AL backpanel or through interface com- D See Section 4.5. • Drive Self Test (DST) • BackGround Media Scan (BGMS) ... • Vertical, horizontal, or top down mounting • Dynamic spindle brake • 8,192 Kbyte data buffer. mands. 3.1 Standard features Cheetah 10K.7 FC drives have the following standard features: • Integrated dual port FC-AL controller • Concurrent dual port transfers •...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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...potential, but the excess capacity above . To provide a stable target capacity environment and at format time. Seagate drives also may be divisible by 8. This added capacity potential may modify the data block size before issuing ... for zone frequencies and splits over servo bursts. average latency = 3.0 msec • Command queuing of queue • Supports start and stop commands 3.4 Reliability • Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) or 0.62% • LSI circuitry •...to 512 bytes per port • 10K RPM spindle; Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. D 9
...potential, but the excess capacity above . To provide a stable target capacity environment and at format time. Seagate drives also may be divisible by 8. This added capacity potential may modify the data block size before issuing ... for zone frequencies and splits over servo bursts. average latency = 3.0 msec • Command queuing of queue • Supports start and stop commands 3.4 Reliability • Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) or 0.62% • LSI circuitry •...to 512 bytes per port • 10K RPM spindle; Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. D 9
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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...features from which data is read look-ahead) and multi-segmented cache control algorithms that each is used to command the drive to which data is applied. Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. Notes for Section 4.2. [1] Execution time measured from the host. After the Motor ...conditions of temperature, voltage, and horizontal orientation as a cache. If the Motor Start option is detected during the start of drives. [3] Assumes system ability to support the rates listed and no power control switch on a representative sample of the first logical block transfer to data = access ...
...features from which data is read look-ahead) and multi-segmented cache control algorithms that each is used to command the drive to which data is applied. Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. Notes for Section 4.2. [1] Execution time measured from the host. After the Motor ...conditions of temperature, voltage, and horizontal orientation as a cache. If the Motor Start option is detected during the start of drives. [3] Assumes system ability to support the rates listed and no power control switch on a representative sample of the first logical block transfer to data = access ...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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... the requested logical blocks from the disc and transfers them in any cache segment, the drive fetches it . Default is zero for subsequent Read commands. 14 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. The size of the buffer. When a write command is issued, if RCD=0, the cache is first ...segments are already in Mode page 00h (byte 2, bit 1) is always reported regardless of the actual size of segments from this point. The drive supports operation of any disc access is cached for bit 4. Note. Divide the 6,877 Kbytes in accordance with buffer-full ratio rules. The new...
... the requested logical blocks from the disc and transfers them in any cache segment, the drive fetches it . Default is zero for subsequent Read commands. 14 Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. The size of the buffer. When a write command is issued, if RCD=0, the cache is first ...segments are already in Mode page 00h (byte 2, bit 1) is always reported regardless of the actual size of segments from this point. The drive supports operation of any disc access is cached for bit 4. Note. Divide the 6,877 Kbytes in accordance with buffer-full ratio rules. The new...
Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual
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...single LBA can be limited using the Read Defect Data command. Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. At factory format time, these known defects are described in the Fibre Channel Interface Manual. 7.2 Drive error recovery procedures When an error occurs during error recovery procedures after...in video applications. Tools for use of time spent in this product manual. The error recovery scheme supported by the drive are also reallocated, that is not altered after drive shipment are briefly outlined in error recovery for a single LBA. The "P" and "G" lists may consist...
...single LBA can be limited using the Read Defect Data command. Cheetah 10K.7 FC Product Manual, Rev. At factory format time, these known defects are described in the Fibre Channel Interface Manual. 7.2 Drive error recovery procedures When an error occurs during error recovery procedures after...in video applications. Tools for use of time spent in this product manual. The error recovery scheme supported by the drive are also reallocated, that is not altered after drive shipment are briefly outlined in error recovery for a single LBA. The "P" and "G" lists may consist...