Barracuda ES.2 Product Overview
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...Barracuda® ES.2 The highest-capacity drives in Tier 2 nearline, business-critical storage 1-TB, 750-GB, 500-GB and 250-GB capacities • SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s Key Features and Benefits • Specifically designed for 24x7 operation • Seagate® PowerTrim™ technology dynamically optimizes power consumption by improving GB/watt by 55 percent over SATA... and a 135 percent average** performance improvement over prior generation of Barracuda ES drives. • Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance provides unrivalled performance in high spindle-density...
...Barracuda® ES.2 The highest-capacity drives in Tier 2 nearline, business-critical storage 1-TB, 750-GB, 500-GB and 250-GB capacities • SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s Key Features and Benefits • Specifically designed for 24x7 operation • Seagate® PowerTrim™ technology dynamically optimizes power consumption by improving GB/watt by 55 percent over SATA... and a 135 percent average** performance improvement over prior generation of Barracuda ES drives. • Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance provides unrivalled performance in high spindle-density...
Barracuda ES.2 Product Overview
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...; 2008 Seagate Technology LLC. Barracuda and PowerTrim are either SATA or SAS interfaces for capacity-intensive storage applications. *Averaged from a trusted source, backed by perpendicular recording technology, Barracuda ES.2 drives ensure maximum cost-effectiveness for convenient system initiators. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in a single, 4-platter hard drive. Printed in...
...; 2008 Seagate Technology LLC. Barracuda and PowerTrim are either SATA or SAS interfaces for capacity-intensive storage applications. *Averaged from a trusted source, backed by perpendicular recording technology, Barracuda ES.2 drives ensure maximum cost-effectiveness for convenient system initiators. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in a single, 4-platter hard drive. Printed in...
Barracuda ES.2 Data Sheet
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... enterprise backup applications. Data Sheet Barracuda® ES.2 High-capacity, business-critical Tier 2 enterprise drives 1 TB, 750 GB, 500 GB and 250 GB • 7200 RPM • SATA 3Gb/s, SATA 1.5Gb/s and SAS 3Gb/s Key Advantages • 1-TB drive delivers 33 percent more capacity than the Barracuda ES drive. • The industry's highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7 operation •...
... enterprise backup applications. Data Sheet Barracuda® ES.2 High-capacity, business-critical Tier 2 enterprise drives 1 TB, 750 GB, 500 GB and 250 GB • 7200 RPM • SATA 3Gb/s, SATA 1.5Gb/s and SAS 3Gb/s Key Advantages • 1-TB drive delivers 33 percent more capacity than the Barracuda ES drive. • The industry's highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7 operation •...
Barracuda ES.2 Data Sheet
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... PowerTrim are either SATA or SAS interfaces, the Barracuda ES.2 drive utilizes perpendicular recording technology to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of its predecessor. • With a choice of either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. All other countries...
... PowerTrim are either SATA or SAS interfaces, the Barracuda ES.2 drive utilizes perpendicular recording technology to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one of its predecessor. • With a choice of either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one trillion bytes. All other countries...
Systems Integrator Has to Deliver Fast, Reliable Networks (101K, PDF)
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...and public-sector organizations. Option+ evaluated the Seagate® Barracuda ES drive, a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive with generous capacities ranging from 250 GB to supply them with the most reliable, fast and economical hard disk drives for enterprise business requirements. and storage management systems...RAID) systems and more about the Barracuda ES drive at Option+, "Our customers rely on us to 750 GB. Option+ technicians reviewed the drive's performance in 1987, Option+ supports the information technology needs of the Seagate Barracuda ES Drive Many Option+ clients rely on ...
...and public-sector organizations. Option+ evaluated the Seagate® Barracuda ES drive, a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive with generous capacities ranging from 250 GB to supply them with the most reliable, fast and economical hard disk drives for enterprise business requirements. and storage management systems...RAID) systems and more about the Barracuda ES drive at Option+, "Our customers rely on us to 750 GB. Option+ technicians reviewed the drive's performance in 1987, Option+ supports the information technology needs of the Seagate Barracuda ES Drive Many Option+ clients rely on ...
Systems Integrator Has to Deliver Fast, Reliable Networks (101K, PDF)
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...Seagate Technology LLC. Other product names are several advantages to use a drive with 750 GB of time, the Barracuda ES drive did not manifest any breakdowns or near-breakdowns. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to find profitable applications for the Barracuda ES drive. "As a SATA drive, the Barracuda... trademarks of their cost of hard disk drives. "The performance, capacity and reliability of the Barracuda ES are registered trademarks of the drive evaluation, Option+ will be using the Barracuda ES drive now want to fragment large ...
...Seagate Technology LLC. Other product names are several advantages to use a drive with 750 GB of time, the Barracuda ES drive did not manifest any breakdowns or near-breakdowns. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to find profitable applications for the Barracuda ES drive. "As a SATA drive, the Barracuda... trademarks of their cost of hard disk drives. "The performance, capacity and reliability of the Barracuda ES are registered trademarks of the drive evaluation, Option+ will be using the Barracuda ES drive now want to fragment large ...
SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition (258K, PDF)
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... Small Form Factor SAS- particularly small form factor SAS. The Benefits of SAS: • SAS infrastructure supports both SAS and SATA drives on the same backplane • Lower total cost of this document is to give system builders information regarding the transition, to ... standard by the industry's leading hard drive and server manufacturers threatens to SAS configurations- We will be training system builders on drives from channel-oriented companies like HP, IBM, Sun and Dell, and increasingly from Seagate, the number-one enterprise drive manufacturer in the world, and ...
... Small Form Factor SAS- particularly small form factor SAS. The Benefits of SAS: • SAS infrastructure supports both SAS and SATA drives on the same backplane • Lower total cost of this document is to give system builders information regarding the transition, to ... standard by the industry's leading hard drive and server manufacturers threatens to SAS configurations- We will be training system builders on drives from channel-oriented companies like HP, IBM, Sun and Dell, and increasingly from Seagate, the number-one enterprise drive manufacturer in the world, and ...
SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition (258K, PDF)
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... • Transaction processing • Storage area networks • Network attached storage • Internet and e-commerce Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Drives Designed for fail-over SATA • Full duplex I/O, 7200 RPM • Top performer in sequential read/writes • Improved rotational... 2 (nearline) storage area, where dollars/GB and GB/watt are the leading 2.5-inch enterprise drives. Unbeatable performance - 135% increase over and data recovery in shared storage environments Investment protection • Seamless SAS-SATA connectivity (no interposer cards necessary) •...
... • Transaction processing • Storage area networks • Network attached storage • Internet and e-commerce Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Drives Designed for fail-over SATA • Full duplex I/O, 7200 RPM • Top performer in sequential read/writes • Improved rotational... 2 (nearline) storage area, where dollars/GB and GB/watt are the leading 2.5-inch enterprise drives. Unbeatable performance - 135% increase over and data recovery in shared storage environments Investment protection • Seamless SAS-SATA connectivity (no interposer cards necessary) •...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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... performance and reliability. Desktop applications represent the least demanding storage environment, typically supporting a single user using email, word processing applications, web browsers, etc. White Paper Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID® SAS/SATA Adapters Ideal for Low-Cost Servers and Nearline Applications Executive Summary With SCSI technology dwindling and Serial ATA...
... performance and reliability. Desktop applications represent the least demanding storage environment, typically supporting a single user using email, word processing applications, web browsers, etc. White Paper Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID® SAS/SATA Adapters Ideal for Low-Cost Servers and Nearline Applications Executive Summary With SCSI technology dwindling and Serial ATA...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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... are the only choice for online storage. With desktop drives at $0.15/GB, enterprise SATA drives at $0.25/GB and enterprise SAS drives at SATA pricing. In early 2007, LSI reduced pricing on when and where to use a SATA drive platform (7200rpm) coupled with 1 Terabyte (TB) capacity...storage. Nearline storage fills the gap between SATA and SAS hard drives has been a barrier to entry for those of data more efficiently and reliably. That is not the primary consideration. Seagate Barracuda ES.2 and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters 2 Tiers of Storage Online Nearline Low...
... are the only choice for online storage. With desktop drives at $0.15/GB, enterprise SATA drives at $0.25/GB and enterprise SAS drives at SATA pricing. In early 2007, LSI reduced pricing on when and where to use a SATA drive platform (7200rpm) coupled with 1 Terabyte (TB) capacity...storage. Nearline storage fills the gap between SATA and SAS hard drives has been a barrier to entry for those of data more efficiently and reliably. That is not the primary consideration. Seagate Barracuda ES.2 and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters 2 Tiers of Storage Online Nearline Low...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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... an average performance increase of SAS technology at a time. Another feature of dual ports and concurrent channels on two separate channels. Seagate's Barracuda ES.2 SAS has a clear advantage with SATA). SAS hard drives also provide two active (concurrent) channels, which greatly increases throughput. These features include dual port, full duplex, concurrent active channels, robust command...
... an average performance increase of SAS technology at a time. Another feature of dual ports and concurrent channels on two separate channels. Seagate's Barracuda ES.2 SAS has a clear advantage with SATA). SAS hard drives also provide two active (concurrent) channels, which greatly increases throughput. These features include dual port, full duplex, concurrent active channels, robust command...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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...SATA drives, including those related to reliability, command queuing, error recovery, staggered spin up, workload and rotational vibration tolerance. Enterprise drives will optimize the order in which it is a primary consideration, Seagate ES.2 SAS drives provide the necessary performance, availability, and reliability all at pennies more per gigabyte than the performance benefits of SAS hard drives... drive to order commands intelligently. Performance comparing Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS drives to Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SATA drives (write cache off) 135% Average Performance Boost over SATA ...
...SATA drives, including those related to reliability, command queuing, error recovery, staggered spin up, workload and rotational vibration tolerance. Enterprise drives will optimize the order in which it is a primary consideration, Seagate ES.2 SAS drives provide the necessary performance, availability, and reliability all at pennies more per gigabyte than the performance benefits of SAS hard drives... drive to order commands intelligently. Performance comparing Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS drives to Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SATA drives (write cache off) 135% Average Performance Boost over SATA ...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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... Seagate Barracuda ES.2 and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters 5 Enterprise SATA drives tell the system that "I am working on many desktop SATA hard drives. In systems with a large number of hard drives, this can ultimately work a desktop drive to 300Hz Enterprise SATA 1,200,000 Hrs 4 Timeout set by adjacent disk drives in low-temperature, single or dual-drive environments where read /write operations. Enterprise SATA hard drives...
... Seagate Barracuda ES.2 and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters 5 Enterprise SATA drives tell the system that "I am working on many desktop SATA hard drives. In systems with a large number of hard drives, this can ultimately work a desktop drive to 300Hz Enterprise SATA 1,200,000 Hrs 4 Timeout set by adjacent disk drives in low-temperature, single or dual-drive environments where read /write operations. Enterprise SATA hard drives...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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... any storage requirement. With a diverse portfolio of LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA and Seagate ES.2 SAS drives offers a unique benefit to the multiple paths. All other of the intellectual property rights of LSI or of a product or service from four to access the hard drive via an alternate path, thereby maintaining communication and eliminating downtime. New...
... any storage requirement. With a diverse portfolio of LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA and Seagate ES.2 SAS drives offers a unique benefit to the multiple paths. All other of the intellectual property rights of LSI or of a product or service from four to access the hard drive via an alternate path, thereby maintaining communication and eliminating downtime. New...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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... 19 3.2 Configuring the drive 20 3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors 20 3.4 Drive mounting 21 4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface 23 4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility 23 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions 24 4.3 Supported ATA commands 25 4.3.1 Identify Device command 27 4.3.2 Set Features command 31 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands 32 5.0 Seagate Technology support services 33 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product...
... 19 3.2 Configuring the drive 20 3.3 Serial ATA cables and connectors 20 3.4 Drive mounting 21 4.0 Serial ATA (SATA) interface 23 4.1 Hot-Plug compatibility 23 4.2 Serial ATA device plug connector pin definitions 24 4.3 Supported ATA commands 25 4.3.1 Identify Device command 27 4.3.2 Set Features command 31 4.3.3 S.M.A.R.T. commands 32 5.0 Seagate Technology support services 33 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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Typical 5V startup and operation current profile 11 Typical 12V startup and operation current profile 11 Serial ATA connectors 20 Attaching SATA cabling 20 Mounting dimensions-top, side and end view 21 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G iii Figure 4. Figure 5. List of Figures Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3.
Typical 5V startup and operation current profile 11 Typical 12V startup and operation current profile 11 Serial ATA connectors 20 Attaching SATA cabling 20 Mounting dimensions-top, side and end view 21 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G iii Figure 4. Figure 5. List of Figures Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3.
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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... This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda® ES.2 Serial ATA model drives: ST31000340NS ST3750330NS ST3500320NS ST3250310NS These drives provide the following key features: • 7,200 RPM spindle speed. .... • SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns. • Support for S.M.A.R.T. G 1 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. drive monitoring and reporting. • Supports latching SATA cables and connectors. • Worldwide Name ...
... This manual describes the functional, mechanical and interface specifications for the following Seagate Barracuda® ES.2 Serial ATA model drives: ST31000340NS ST3750330NS ST3500320NS ST3250310NS These drives provide the following key features: • 7,200 RPM spindle speed. .... • SeaTools diagnostic software performs a drive self-test that eliminates unnecessary drive returns. • Support for S.M.A.R.T. G 1 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. drive monitoring and reporting. • Supports latching SATA cables and connectors. • Worldwide Name ...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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...ST3750330NS ST3500320NS ST3250310NS Formatted capacity* 1000 Gbytes 750 Gbytes 500 Gbytes 250 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 1,465,149,168 976,773,168 488,397,168 Bytes per track 63 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to hard drive... (Mbytes/sec max) I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 1000GB 750GB Serial ATA (SATA) Perpendicular 1,090 150 164 7,200 1287 105 300 (Ultra DMA mode 5) 500GB 250GB 8 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60...
...ST3750330NS ST3500320NS ST3250310NS Formatted capacity* 1000 Gbytes 750 Gbytes 500 Gbytes 250 Gbytes Guaranteed sectors 1,953,525,168 1,465,149,168 976,773,168 488,397,168 Bytes per track 63 LBA mode When addressing these drives in LBA mode, all blocks (sectors) are consecutively numbered from 0 to hard drive... (Mbytes/sec max) I/O data-transfer rate (Mbytes/sec max) 1000GB 750GB Serial ATA (SATA) Perpendicular 1,090 150 164 7,200 1287 105 300 (Ultra DMA mode 5) 500GB 250GB 8 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. See Section 4.3.1, "Identify Device command" (words 60...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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... Operating power is measured using 40 percent random seeks, 40 percent read / write electronics are based on to operational levels. 10 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Seek mode power represents the worst-case power consumption, using 5.0V and 12.0V...8226; Standby mode During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read /write mode (1 write for the drives are active. 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. specification, which may occur according...
... Operating power is measured using 40 percent random seeks, 40 percent read / write electronics are based on to operational levels. 10 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. G Seek mode power represents the worst-case power consumption, using 5.0V and 12.0V...8226; Standby mode During Standby mode, the drive accepts commands, but the drive is not spinning, and the servo and read /write mode (1 write for the drives are active. 2.8 Power specifications The drive receives DC power (+5V or +12V) through a native SATA power connector. specification, which may occur according...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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... support autonegotiation: • Install a jumper as shown in Figure 3 below ), and connect the drive to that supports autonegotiation, leave the drive jumper block set any jumpers on the drive for proper operation; Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA drives support latching SATA connectors. 20 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. It is usually not necessary to set to...
... support autonegotiation: • Install a jumper as shown in Figure 3 below ), and connect the drive to that supports autonegotiation, leave the drive jumper block set any jumpers on the drive for proper operation; Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA drives support latching SATA connectors. 20 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. It is usually not necessary to set to...