Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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... storage requirements, including disc drive capacity and performance. While IT departments often speak of 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...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 36GB 10K (lowest price box cost), as opposed to 146GB 15K (highest initial acquisition price/GB) or 300GB 10K (lowest price per GB...
... storage requirements, including disc drive capacity and performance. While IT departments often speak of 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...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 36GB 10K (lowest price box cost), as opposed to 146GB 15K (highest initial acquisition price/GB) or 300GB 10K (lowest price per GB...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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... the data, and thus improves disc seek time. In such environments 15K drives offer significant risk mitigation benefits to IT managers, reducing the potential for the average price of denser 15K 73GB drives. In order to attain specific performance goals with short-stroking, IT departments ...reduces effective disc capacity, increasing the cost per GB 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% ...
... the data, and thus improves disc seek time. In such environments 15K drives offer significant risk mitigation benefits to IT managers, reducing the potential for the average price of denser 15K 73GB drives. In order to attain specific performance goals with short-stroking, IT departments ...reduces effective disc capacity, increasing the cost per GB 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% ...
Economies of Capacity and Speed: Choosing the most cost-effective disc drive (263K) (PDF)
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... drives. (see Figure 8) Storage Subsystem Disc Drive IBM Total Storage® FAStT 600 with the additional data stored on Overall Reliability The Seagate 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM disc drives carry the highest reliability rating in today's IT departments. 5 Similarly, fewer drives require less supporting infrastructure, whose failure could cause system downtime. All top SPC price...
... drives. (see Figure 8) Storage Subsystem Disc Drive IBM Total Storage® FAStT 600 with the additional data stored on Overall Reliability The Seagate 10K-RPM and 15K-RPM disc drives carry the highest reliability rating in today's IT departments. 5 Similarly, fewer drives require less supporting infrastructure, whose failure could cause system downtime. All top SPC price...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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...technology in this analysis), it possible to deploy both raw performance and price/performance by 15K-RPM SAS online drives (and soundly trounced in cost/GB by SATA nearline-ready drives), 10K SAS drives are being supplanted by matching the storage device to address both higher...12-bay enclosure/rack space filled with Serial ATA (SATA) makes it is straightforward: Optimize price/performance by more efficient storage environment. SAS compatibility with 3.5-inch disc drives. Naturally, such an approach requires multiple device types, each cost-effectively performing its respective ...
...technology in this analysis), it possible to deploy both raw performance and price/performance by 15K-RPM SAS online drives (and soundly trounced in cost/GB by SATA nearline-ready drives), 10K SAS drives are being supplanted by matching the storage device to address both higher...12-bay enclosure/rack space filled with Serial ATA (SATA) makes it is straightforward: Optimize price/performance by more efficient storage environment. SAS compatibility with 3.5-inch disc drives. Naturally, such an approach requires multiple device types, each cost-effectively performing its respective ...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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...For IT 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...needed. SAS is that 15K SAS solutions provide significantly lower total cost of ownership, not individual drive prices, that more nearline storage be addressed with fewer drives than the 10K reference system, while providing the same nearline capacity. All 10K SAS 55.1 275...
...For IT 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...needed. SAS is that 15K SAS solutions provide significantly lower total cost of ownership, not individual drive prices, that more nearline storage be addressed with fewer drives than the 10K reference system, while providing the same nearline capacity. All 10K SAS 55.1 275...
Cheetah 10K.7 Product Overview
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... (W, idle) Interface Warranty (years) 300, 146, 73 4.6/5.2 Up to 80 1.4 million 6.92 to the general purpose and high-end enterprise markets, which highly leverages reliability features from the Cheetah 15K drive, including fluid dynamic bearings, enhanced data integrity/error recovery...10 00 © 2004 Seagate Technology LLC. Mainstream applications will be used for applications that house mission-critical data. Seagate and Seagate Technology are registered trademarks of its predecessor. The Cheetah 10K.7 drive meets this challenge by price per gigabyte, price per IOPS and data ...
... (W, idle) Interface Warranty (years) 300, 146, 73 4.6/5.2 Up to 80 1.4 million 6.92 to the general purpose and high-end enterprise markets, which highly leverages reliability features from the Cheetah 15K drive, including fluid dynamic bearings, enhanced data integrity/error recovery...10 00 © 2004 Seagate Technology LLC. Mainstream applications will be used for applications that house mission-critical data. Seagate and Seagate Technology are registered trademarks of its predecessor. The Cheetah 10K.7 drive meets this challenge by price per gigabyte, price per IOPS and data ...
Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual
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...time, from anywhere in your drive's "ST" model number available. Automated phone services SeaFONE® (1-800-SEAGATE) is a telecommunications device for OEMs and distributors. You can reach this service by e-mail for the call centers. Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual, ...tools that are best suited for Seagate Service Center support options. These communications contain product launch, EOL, pricing, promotions and other channel-related information. D 87 10.0 Seagate Technology support services Online services Internet www.seagate.com for customized communications that allow...
...time, from anywhere in your drive's "ST" model number available. Automated phone services SeaFONE® (1-800-SEAGATE) is a telecommunications device for OEMs and distributors. You can reach this service by e-mail for the call centers. Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI Product Manual, ...tools that are best suited for Seagate Service Center support options. These communications contain product launch, EOL, pricing, promotions and other channel-related information. D 87 10.0 Seagate Technology support services Online services Internet www.seagate.com for customized communications that allow...