SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition (258K, PDF)
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...channel every quarter. The Benefits of SAS: • SAS infrastructure supports both SAS and SATA drives on the same backplane • Lower total cost of this new market. Seagate is that are available in the market and in the server and storage business for system builders... companies like : LSI, Adaptec, Intel, AIC, Chenbro and Supermicro. Becoming the Standard Gartner predicts 2.5-inch SAS drives will be produced by major hard drive manufacturers. Seagate Value Proposition You can expect our support in servers and storage products- In fact, by mid-2009 the SCSI interface...
...channel every quarter. The Benefits of SAS: • SAS infrastructure supports both SAS and SATA drives on the same backplane • Lower total cost of this new market. Seagate is that are available in the market and in the server and storage business for system builders... companies like : LSI, Adaptec, Intel, AIC, Chenbro and Supermicro. Becoming the Standard Gartner predicts 2.5-inch SAS drives will be produced by major hard drive manufacturers. Seagate Value Proposition You can expect our support in servers and storage products- In fact, by mid-2009 the SCSI interface...
SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition (258K, PDF)
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...SATA True enterprise Tier 2 to offload Tier 1 storage • Supports up to cool processors • Result: lower overall costs 2.5-inch Tier 1 Best-Fit Applications • Mainstream enterprise applications • File and print • Blade servers • Rack and tower servers • Storage arrays Seagate Cheetah Drive The Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 and Cheetah NS drives...provides 62 percent improvement in the tier 2 (nearline) storage area, where dollars/GB and GB/watt are the leading 2.5-inch enterprise drives. Faster • 10 percent faster seek times than 3.5-inch 10K • ...
...SATA True enterprise Tier 2 to offload Tier 1 storage • Supports up to cool processors • Result: lower overall costs 2.5-inch Tier 1 Best-Fit Applications • Mainstream enterprise applications • File and print • Blade servers • Rack and tower servers • Storage arrays Seagate Cheetah Drive The Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 and Cheetah NS drives...provides 62 percent improvement in the tier 2 (nearline) storage area, where dollars/GB and GB/watt are the leading 2.5-inch enterprise drives. Faster • 10 percent faster seek times than 3.5-inch 10K • ...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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... higher online performance and greater nearline capacity (see table 1): In order to address both online (performance) disc drives and nearline (capacity) disc drives on a common SAS backplane in cost/GB by SATA nearline-ready drives), 10K SAS drives are being supplanted by more specialized, application-specific devices. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is both raw performance and...
... higher online performance and greater nearline capacity (see table 1): In order to address both online (performance) disc drives and nearline (capacity) disc drives on a common SAS backplane in cost/GB by SATA nearline-ready drives), 10K SAS drives are being supplanted by more specialized, application-specific devices. Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is both raw performance and...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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...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/Nearline SATA 55.1 275.5 2800GB $1.00 11% More Online Performance, 17% More Nearline Capacity 6 - 10K SAS Drives (146GB) 6 - 7200 SATA Drives (400GB) 5 - 15K SAS Drives (146GB) 7 - 7200 SATA Drives (400GB) 6 - 10K SAS Drives (146GB) 6 - 10K SAS Drives...required, a combination of SAS and SATA drives • Fully exploit SATA's cost/GB economies without compromising enterprise management and ...
...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/Nearline SATA 55.1 275.5 2800GB $1.00 11% More Online Performance, 17% More Nearline Capacity 6 - 10K SAS Drives (146GB) 6 - 7200 SATA Drives (400GB) 5 - 15K SAS Drives (146GB) 7 - 7200 SATA Drives (400GB) 6 - 10K SAS Drives (146GB) 6 - 10K SAS Drives...required, a combination of SAS and SATA drives • Fully exploit SATA's cost/GB economies without compromising enterprise management and ...
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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..., decreasing seek time. Costly 10K Kludges Some IT departments may resort to storing data only on operation. Nearline-ready SATA drives also incorporate Workload Management to periodically test the media surface for nearline storage • Lower maintenance and storage-management costs...costs due to simultaneously access their online application needs with cost/GB roughly four times higher than nearline-ready SATA drives. Both entail data that data flowing. More importantly, 10K SAS drives are specifically designed to wrest improved performance from excessive peak workloads....
..., decreasing seek time. Costly 10K Kludges Some IT departments may resort to storing data only on operation. Nearline-ready SATA drives also incorporate Workload Management to periodically test the media surface for nearline storage • Lower maintenance and storage-management costs...costs due to simultaneously access their online application needs with cost/GB roughly four times higher than nearline-ready SATA drives. Both entail data that data flowing. More importantly, 10K SAS drives are specifically designed to wrest improved performance from excessive peak workloads....
Optimizing Storage with SAS: Beyond the 10K Compromise (72K, PDF)
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... enterprise continues to change, without compromise. Moreover, the peerless performance of Seagate Technology LLC. Quantitative usage examples for nearline duty, this new breed of nearline-ready SATA drives ensures application reliability is capable of handling the full gamut of their owners... duties, from online (transactional, high availability) to hard drive capacity. 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,...
... enterprise continues to change, without compromise. Moreover, the peerless performance of Seagate Technology LLC. Quantitative usage examples for nearline duty, this new breed of nearline-ready SATA drives ensures application reliability is capable of handling the full gamut of their owners... duties, from online (transactional, high availability) to hard drive capacity. 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,...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...team. New 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 quickly and efficiently create, test, and execute their customer's development process, Area ... Area Data Systems, Inc. for almost three years, recognized this challenge with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Intel, Adaptec and Seagate. In the past, developers and IT staffs have met this situation as an ideal opportunity to Area Data...
...team. New 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 quickly and efficiently create, test, and execute their customer's development process, Area ... Area Data Systems, Inc. for almost three years, recognized this challenge with the latest Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID technology from Intel, Adaptec and Seagate. In the past, developers and IT staffs have met this situation as an ideal opportunity to Area Data...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...drives provided hot-swappable functionality to approximately 100 individual desktop computers. This processing capacity allowed Area Data Systems to confidently consolidate applications onto fewer systems using proven virtualization solutions. The Adaptec 3405 PCI-e 4-port Unified Serial (SATA...Huang President, Area Data Systems Featuring unprecedented levels of the different OS being used Seagate Cheetah hard drives." Flawless Compatibility The end result was capable of Seagate hard drives. William Huang President, Area Data Systems "To minimize potential downtime while supporting ...
...drives provided hot-swappable functionality to approximately 100 individual desktop computers. This processing capacity allowed Area Data Systems to confidently consolidate applications onto fewer systems using proven virtualization solutions. The Adaptec 3405 PCI-e 4-port Unified Serial (SATA...Huang President, Area Data Systems Featuring unprecedented levels of the different OS being used Seagate Cheetah hard drives." Flawless Compatibility The end result was capable of Seagate hard drives. William Huang President, Area Data Systems "To minimize potential downtime while supporting ...
VAR Delivers Competitive Advantage With Intel, Adaptec, and Seagate (454K, PDF)
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...GB SATA drives) • RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60 JBOD • 128 MB DDR fixed data cache • MD2 low-profile form factor • Optional battery backup module OS support: Microsoft Windows*, Linux* Open Source, Sun, VMWare* Features: • Broad range of capacities-from 73 GB to 450 GB...174; 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 ...
...GB SATA drives) • RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, 60 JBOD • 128 MB DDR fixed data cache • MD2 low-profile form factor • Optional battery backup module OS support: Microsoft Windows*, Linux* Open Source, Sun, VMWare* Features: • Broad range of capacities-from 73 GB to 450 GB...174; 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 ...