Enterprise-Optimized 6Gb/s SAS Rivals Fibre Channel Performance and Scalability at Lower Cost
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... FC has long been the technology will be preserved in 6Gb/s SAS along Satisfying the enterprise's relentless hunger for coupling its blazing 6-Gb/s transfer rate (double architectures used in enterprise data centers: that 6Gb/s SAS is also known for with daunting cost. SAS Roadmap ... favored interface for enterprise storage, this new SAS-2 which enable 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 1.5Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/ more that of the previous generation) is the...
... FC has long been the technology will be preserved in 6Gb/s SAS along Satisfying the enterprise's relentless hunger for coupling its blazing 6-Gb/s transfer rate (double architectures used in enterprise data centers: that 6Gb/s SAS is also known for with daunting cost. SAS Roadmap ... favored interface for enterprise storage, this new SAS-2 which enable 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 1.5Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/ more that of the previous generation) is the...
Enterprise-Optimized 6Gb/s SAS Rivals Fibre Channel Performance and Scalability at Lower Cost
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...t10.org/) is part 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. Furthermore, expanders can lead to inaccessible storage...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 today's SAS/SATA environments Standardized expander zoning Provides...
...t10.org/) is part 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. Furthermore, expanders can lead to inaccessible storage...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 today's SAS/SATA environments Standardized expander zoning Provides...
Enterprise-Optimized 6Gb/s SAS Rivals Fibre Channel Performance and Scalability at Lower Cost
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... 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 Avenue 5, Singapore 569877, 65-6485-3888 Seagate Technology SAS 130-136, rue de Silly, 92773, Boulogne... become increasingly problematic. Graphics copyrighted by 3Gb/s SAS and relies solely on small form factor (SFF) 2.5-inch hard drives. Seagate reserves the right to purchase, install and maintain for both internal (SFF-8087) and external (SFF-8088, Figure 4) connectivity.
... 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 Avenue 5, Singapore 569877, 65-6485-3888 Seagate Technology SAS 130-136, rue de Silly, 92773, Boulogne... become increasingly problematic. Graphics copyrighted by 3Gb/s SAS and relies solely on small form factor (SFF) 2.5-inch hard drives. Seagate reserves the right to purchase, install and maintain for both internal (SFF-8087) and external (SFF-8088, Figure 4) connectivity.
Cheetah NS.2 Product Overview
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...of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Cheetah® NS.2 Lowest power, highest reliability for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions Product Description Seagate Cheetah NS.2 drives reduce costs for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions, helping to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals...has up to 600 GB of capacity, which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of any 3.5-inch Tier 1 mission-critical drive. All rights reserved. The Cheetah NS.2 drive is the highest capacity of activity. The drive is available with a SAS (600 GB and 450 GB) or FC ...
...of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. Cheetah® NS.2 Lowest power, highest reliability for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions Product Description Seagate Cheetah NS.2 drives reduce costs for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions, helping to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals...has up to 600 GB of capacity, which dynamically optimizes drive power consumption at all levels of any 3.5-inch Tier 1 mission-critical drive. All rights reserved. The Cheetah NS.2 drive is the highest capacity of activity. The drive is available with a SAS (600 GB and 450 GB) or FC ...
Cheetah NS.2 Data Sheet
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... operating system may use a different standard of Seagate Technology LLC in USA. Cheetah® NS.2 Lowest power, highest reliability for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions Lowest Cost of Ownership • The Seagate Cheetah NS.2 drive is the lowest-power, highest-capacity and highest...600,000 400 10K 3.00 3.8/4.4 0.2/0.2 1840 150 16 2 4 1 sector per Bits Read Reliability Rating at support.seagate.com. • Visit our knowledge base for answers to common support questions. • Find documentation for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB...
... operating system may use a different standard of Seagate Technology LLC in USA. Cheetah® NS.2 Lowest power, highest reliability for 3.5-inch Tier 1 solutions Lowest Cost of Ownership • The Seagate Cheetah NS.2 drive is the lowest-power, highest-capacity and highest...600,000 400 10K 3.00 3.8/4.4 0.2/0.2 1840 150 16 2 4 1 sector per Bits Read Reliability Rating at support.seagate.com. • Visit our knowledge base for answers to common support questions. • Find documentation for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB...
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual
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...hard drive capacity. 4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics Drive capacity* Read/write data heads Tracks per inch Peak bits per inch Areal density Internal data rate disk rotation speed Avg rotational latency ST3600002FC 600...msec *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to data = access time + latency time. Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 11 Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment ...
...hard drive capacity. 4.0 Performance characteristics This section provides detailed information concerning performance-related characteristics and features of Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives. 4.1 Internal drive characteristics Drive capacity* Read/write data heads Tracks per inch Peak bits per inch Areal density Internal data rate disk rotation speed Avg rotational latency ST3600002FC 600...msec *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to data = access time + latency time. Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. B 11 Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment ...
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual
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8.0 Installation Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC disk drive installation is called the hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA). See Section 9.5 for additional information about this condition. If you change options after applying power to the drive, recycle the drive power to activate the new settings. ...AL interface to any orientation. You need to reformat the drive only if you don't successfully assign unique hard addresses (and therefore have the same selection ID. You should confirm that the drive operates within the temperature measurement guidelines described in 512-byte ...
8.0 Installation Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC disk drive installation is called the hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA). See Section 9.5 for additional information about this condition. If you change options after applying power to the drive, recycle the drive power to activate the new settings. ...AL interface to any orientation. You need to reformat the drive only if you don't successfully assign unique hard addresses (and therefore have the same selection ID. You should confirm that the drive operates within the temperature measurement guidelines described in 512-byte ...
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual
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... ELS transfers while receiving frames on both ports will attempt taking a soft address to buffer availability, the Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives support: • Concurrent port transfers-The drive supports receiving transfers on both ports. These ports may be connected on independent loops or on independent loops... same loop and hard addressing is selected through the interface connector, both ports at least one port will seek the same loop address. B 53 9.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options Table 15 lists the FC-AL options supported by Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives. Table 15:...
... ELS transfers while receiving frames on both ports will attempt taking a soft address to buffer availability, the Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives support: • Concurrent port transfers-The drive supports receiving transfers on both ports. These ports may be connected on independent loops or on independent loops... same loop and hard addressing is selected through the interface connector, both ports at least one port will seek the same loop address. B 53 9.1.10 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options Table 15 lists the FC-AL options supported by Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC drives. Table 15:...
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual
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...drive a list of mode parameters: 1. An attempt to the appropiate SPC release documentation for definitions. B On drives...drives may have unique firmware with actual year). ** SCSI Revision support. Bytes 16 through 26 reflect model of drive. The drive... the values are hard-coded in the drive firmware stored in ... location on the drive's PCB. Only ...command before the drive achieves operating speed ...127 128-143 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC... default values also. 58 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product...drive should return to shipping the drive...drive to report its operating parameters to the drive...
...drive a list of mode parameters: 1. An attempt to the appropiate SPC release documentation for definitions. B On drives...drives may have unique firmware with actual year). ** SCSI Revision support. Bytes 16 through 26 reflect model of drive. The drive... the values are hard-coded in the drive firmware stored in ... location on the drive's PCB. Only ...command before the drive achieves operating speed ...127 128-143 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC... default values also. 58 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product...drive should return to shipping the drive...drive to report its operating parameters to the drive...
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual
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... 04 and 05), there is not changeable. A zero (0) indicates the value is changeable. The changeable values list can be changed by the drive to shipping. 3. B 59 These are hex numbers representing the changeable values for SCSI implementation (see the Fibre Channel Interface Manual ). Note in... bytes returned by downloading new firmware into the saved values storage location on reset, hard reset, or Bus Device Reset message. 4. Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. On standard OEM drives, the saved values are taken from saved or default values after a power on...
... 04 and 05), there is not changeable. A zero (0) indicates the value is changeable. The changeable values list can be changed by the drive to shipping. 3. B 59 These are hex numbers representing the changeable values for SCSI implementation (see the Fibre Channel Interface Manual ). Note in... bytes returned by downloading new firmware into the saved values storage location on reset, hard reset, or Bus Device Reset message. 4. Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. On standard OEM drives, the saved values are taken from saved or default values after a power on...
Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual
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...intermediate/good status 63 Intermix 49, 52 internal data rate 11 internal defects/errors 39 internal drive characteristics 11 IRAW 42 J J1 connector 43 Jumper settings page command 54 jumpers 43 L ... event notification 63 Automatic contingent allegiance 63 Deferred error handling 63 FC-AL selective reset 63 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. corruption 57 Firmware download option command 56 Firmware numbers...04 48 G Good status 63 gradient 32 ground shift noise 66 grounding 45 H hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA) 43 HDA 45 heads read/write data 11 heat removal 43...
...intermediate/good status 63 Intermix 49, 52 internal data rate 11 internal defects/errors 39 internal drive characteristics 11 IRAW 42 J J1 connector 43 Jumper settings page command 54 jumpers 43 L ... event notification 63 Automatic contingent allegiance 63 Deferred error handling 63 FC-AL selective reset 63 Cheetah NS 10K.2 FC Product Manual, Rev. corruption 57 Firmware download option command 56 Firmware numbers...04 48 G Good status 63 gradient 32 ground shift noise 66 grounding 45 H hard assigned arbitrated loop physical address (AL_PA) 43 HDA 45 heads read/write data 11 heat removal 43...