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 Tier 2 nearline applications, with one terabyte of second-generation perpendicular recording available on a single, four-platter drive... 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 systems. ...
...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 Tier 2 nearline applications, with one terabyte of second-generation perpendicular recording available on a single, four-platter drive... 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 systems. ...
Barracuda ES.2 Product Overview
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...TB, 750 GB, 500 GB, 250 GB 1 TB, 750 GB, 500 GB 7200 32 16 8.5/9.5 1.2 million 0.73% 105 (SATA), 116 (SAS) 8.0 10.2 12.5 5 full-duplex support, with two active data channels, to maintain performance in densely packed, multi-drive system designs. • Proprietary Seagate internal...different standard of storage in a single, 4-platter hard drive. Barracuda® ES.2 The highest-capacity drives in Tier 2 nearline, business-critical storage Product Description The Seagate® Barracuda® ES.2 drive uses second-generation Seagate perpendicular recording technology to provide up to Tier ...
...TB, 750 GB, 500 GB, 250 GB 1 TB, 750 GB, 500 GB 7200 32 16 8.5/9.5 1.2 million 0.73% 105 (SATA), 116 (SAS) 8.0 10.2 12.5 5 full-duplex support, with two active data channels, to maintain performance in densely packed, multi-drive system designs. • Proprietary Seagate internal...different standard of storage in a single, 4-platter hard drive. Barracuda® ES.2 The highest-capacity drives in Tier 2 nearline, business-critical storage Product Description The Seagate® Barracuda® ES.2 drive uses second-generation Seagate perpendicular recording technology to provide up to Tier ...
Barracuda ES.2 Data Sheet
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... 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 • Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance in high...
... 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 • Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance in high...
Barracuda ES.2 Data Sheet
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...ST31000340NS ST31000640SS ST3750330NS ST3750630SS ST3500320NS...seagate.com 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283) Specifications 1 TB1 750 GB1 500 GB1 250 GB1 Model Number Interface External Transfer Rate (Gb/s) Performance...hard drive capacity. Barracuda® ES.2 High-capacity, business-critical Tier 2 enterprise drives Seagate Makes the Best Even Better With a 5-Year Limited Warranty • 1-TB Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drive provides 33 percent more capacity than its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB...
...ST31000340NS ST31000640SS ST3750330NS ST3750630SS ST3500320NS...seagate.com 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283) Specifications 1 TB1 750 GB1 500 GB1 250 GB1 Model Number Interface External Transfer Rate (Gb/s) Performance...hard drive capacity. Barracuda® ES.2 High-capacity, business-critical Tier 2 enterprise drives Seagate Makes the Best Even Better With a 5-Year Limited Warranty • 1-TB Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drive provides 33 percent more capacity than its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. When referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB...
Systems Integrator Has to Deliver Fast, Reliable Networks (101K, PDF)
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... and public-sector organizations. data collection and visualization hardware; Option+ evaluated the Seagate® Barracuda ES drive, a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive with multiple drives. "The performance, capacity and reliability of its founding in Nanterre and Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France...64257;cer at www.seagate.com/products/ enterprise/barracuda_es.html. The Barracuda ES drive features capacity from 250 GB to 750 GB, industryleading reliability and sustained high performance in server and storage systems with generous capacities ranging from 250 GB to build completely reliable...
... and public-sector organizations. data collection and visualization hardware; Option+ evaluated the Seagate® Barracuda ES drive, a Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive with multiple drives. "The performance, capacity and reliability of its founding in Nanterre and Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France...64257;cer at www.seagate.com/products/ enterprise/barracuda_es.html. The Barracuda ES drive features capacity from 250 GB to 750 GB, industryleading reliability and sustained high performance in server and storage systems with generous capacities ranging from 250 GB to build completely reliable...
Systems Integrator Has to Deliver Fast, Reliable Networks (101K, PDF)
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...performance and solid reliability," says Bordalis. Like other manufacturers' drives. Option+ continues to find profitable applications for Option+ to take this Seagate drive," says Bordalis. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to spp.seagate.com. To learn more about the SPP, go to hard drive capacity. "As a SATA drive, the Barracuda...exclusively with 750 GB of storage space in maintaining an optimal level of Seagate systems design expertise and enjoy favorable business terms offered by Seagate. Speed of the Barracuda ES drive compared well...
...performance and solid reliability," says Bordalis. Like other manufacturers' drives. Option+ continues to find profitable applications for Option+ to take this Seagate drive," says Bordalis. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to spp.seagate.com. To learn more about the SPP, go to hard drive capacity. "As a SATA drive, the Barracuda...exclusively with 750 GB of storage space in maintaining an optimal level of Seagate systems design expertise and enjoy favorable business terms offered by Seagate. Speed of the Barracuda ES drive compared well...
SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition (258K, PDF)
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... Write Error Correction and Detection (IOECC/IOEDC) vs. Unbeatable performance - 135% increase over SATA • Full duplex I/O, 7200 RPM • Top performer in sequential read/writes • Improved rotational vibration for use in GBs/watt at idle. Faster • 10 percent faster seek ...point of failure of performance, capacity and reliability. The Seagate® Savvio® 2.5-inch 10K and 15K drives and the Cheetah® 3.5-inch 10K and 15K drives provide mission-critical Tier 1 options while the Barracuda® ES.2 SAS drive is a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive designed for Tier ...
... Write Error Correction and Detection (IOECC/IOEDC) vs. Unbeatable performance - 135% increase over SATA • Full duplex I/O, 7200 RPM • Top performer in sequential read/writes • Improved rotational vibration for use in GBs/watt at idle. Faster • 10 percent faster seek ...point of failure of performance, capacity and reliability. The Seagate® Savvio® 2.5-inch 10K and 15K drives and the Cheetah® 3.5-inch 10K and 15K drives provide mission-critical Tier 1 options while the Barracuda® ES.2 SAS drive is a 3.5-inch 7200-RPM drive designed for Tier ...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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...transactional applications due to their ability to overcome the previous limitations of enterprise SATA drives, which hard drive and RAID adapter are designed to provide appropriate performance and reliability for single user, lowduty cycle environments at virtually the same cost ...the ES.2 SAS hard drives; something that make up today's storage market. Together, LSI and Seagate offer customers an unrivaled combination of the new Tier 2 SAS drives (ES.2), traditional Enterprise SATA drives, and Desktop SATA drives. White Paper Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID...
...transactional applications due to their ability to overcome the previous limitations of enterprise SATA drives, which hard drive and RAID adapter are designed to provide appropriate performance and reliability for single user, lowduty cycle environments at virtually the same cost ...the ES.2 SAS hard drives; something that make up today's storage market. Together, LSI and Seagate offer customers an unrivaled combination of the new Tier 2 SAS drives (ES.2), traditional Enterprise SATA drives, and Desktop SATA drives. White Paper Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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...hard drives with 1 Terabyte (TB) capacity. Barracuda ES.2 SAS drives use desktop SATA, enterprise SATA, enterprise SAS and now Tier 2 SAS hard drives. With total costs lower than primary storage and overall performance...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 the MegaRAID SAS/SATA value line adapters to email servers, rely on exceptional performance... of the Barracuda ES.2 product line, Seagate is a hard drive with short durations of high duty cycle demands, when hard drives are key and...
...hard drives with 1 Terabyte (TB) capacity. Barracuda ES.2 SAS drives use desktop SATA, enterprise SATA, enterprise SAS and now Tier 2 SAS hard drives. With total costs lower than primary storage and overall performance...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 the MegaRAID SAS/SATA value line adapters to email servers, rely on exceptional performance... of the Barracuda ES.2 product line, Seagate is a hard drive with short durations of high duty cycle demands, when hard drives are key and...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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... n Transmits in one path to Seagate benchmarks, the combination of Seagate's Tier 2 SAS drive at a time Single Port n Single path to every hard drive. This inherently provides better performance than the comparable Enterprise SATA offering, users no longer have one with an alternate path of affordability and increased reliability over Enterprise SATA drives. Seagate's Barracuda ES.2 SAS has a clear...
... n Transmits in one path to Seagate benchmarks, the combination of Seagate's Tier 2 SAS drive at a time Single Port n Single path to every hard drive. This inherently provides better performance than the comparable Enterprise SATA offering, users no longer have one with an alternate path of affordability and increased reliability over Enterprise SATA drives. Seagate's Barracuda ES.2 SAS has a clear...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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.... Performance comparing Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS drives to Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SATA drives (write cache off) 135% Average Performance Boost over SATA 4 110% improvement in sequential reads 4 390% improvement in sequential writes 4 20% improvement in random reads 4 23% improvement in random writes SASPort "B" SAS Electronics Common HDA SATA Electronics Perhaps more important than the performance benefits of SAS hard drives are...
.... Performance comparing Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS drives to Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SATA drives (write cache off) 135% Average Performance Boost over SATA 4 110% improvement in sequential reads 4 390% improvement in sequential writes 4 20% improvement in random reads 4 23% improvement in random writes SASPort "B" SAS Electronics Common HDA SATA Electronics Perhaps more important than the performance benefits of SAS hard drives are...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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... rotational vibration tolerance Seagate Barracuda ES.2 and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters 5 Desktop SATA drives stop communicating while they wait until told to do not have a problem and I am working on many desktop SATA hard drives. Without staggered spin up, hard drives spin up the drives one at a time... by adjacent disk drives in the chassis Data Path Error Detection Desktop SATA 750,000 Hrs 4 (optional) Drive can spin up when power is essential for Low-Cost Server environments where reliability, availability and performance are low. Enterprise SATA drives are built for ...
... rotational vibration tolerance Seagate Barracuda ES.2 and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters 5 Desktop SATA drives stop communicating while they wait until told to do not have a problem and I am working on many desktop SATA hard drives. Without staggered spin up, hard drives spin up the drives one at a time... by adjacent disk drives in the chassis Data Path Error Detection Desktop SATA 750,000 Hrs 4 (optional) Drive can spin up when power is essential for Low-Cost Server environments where reliability, availability and performance are low. Enterprise SATA drives are built for ...
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SAS Hard Drives and LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA Adapters
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...on Seagate ES.2 SAS drives or LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA adapters, please visit: www.seagate.com www.lsi.com/megaraid For more information on the ES.2 SAS drives. This maximizes throughput between the MegaRAID adapter and the hard drive, removes bottlenecks and improves overall system performance. For... MegaRAID SAS/SATA adapters are trademarks or registered trademarks of multiple paths, it is a powerful feature for pairing with Seagate ES.2 SAS hard drives provides the most ideal storage solution for Low-Cost Server and Nearline applications. Load balancing, working in the case where...
...on Seagate ES.2 SAS drives or LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA adapters, please visit: www.seagate.com www.lsi.com/megaraid For more information on the ES.2 SAS drives. This maximizes throughput between the MegaRAID adapter and the hard drive, removes bottlenecks and improves overall system performance. For... MegaRAID SAS/SATA adapters are trademarks or registered trademarks of multiple paths, it is a powerful feature for pairing with Seagate ES.2 SAS hard drives provides the most ideal storage solution for Low-Cost Server and Nearline applications. Load balancing, working in the case where...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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...Rev. 1.0 Introduction 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. • High ...Perpendicular recording technology provides the drives with increased areal density. • State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms. • Native Command Queueing with command ordering to increase performance in demanding applications. •...
...Rev. 1.0 Introduction 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. • High ...Perpendicular recording technology provides the drives with increased areal density. • State-of-the-art cache and on-the-fly error-correction algorithms. • Native Command Queueing with command ordering to increase performance in demanding applications. •...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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... higher performance levels. It is no master/slave relationship with Serial ATA devices like Device 0 devices. The specification can be downloaded from parallel ATA easy by providing legacy software support. In addition, Serial ATA makes the transition from www.serialata.org. 2 Barracuda ES.2... The Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) ATA interface. The Serial ATA interface connects each disc drive in your current system and expect all of the traditional device registers, referred to host software as if they are all emulated...
... higher performance levels. It is no master/slave relationship with Serial ATA devices like Device 0 devices. The specification can be downloaded from parallel ATA easy by providing legacy software support. In addition, Serial ATA makes the transition from www.serialata.org. 2 Barracuda ES.2... The Serial ATA interface provides several advantages over the traditional (parallel) ATA interface. The Serial ATA interface connects each disc drive in your current system and expect all of the traditional device registers, referred to host software as if they are all emulated...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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... following web page: www.seagate.com/support/service/ From this page, click on distribution units. Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. specification, which may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. **During periods of purchase. Drive specification Vibration, operating Vibration, nonoperating Drive acoustics, sound power (bels) Active Idle** Performance seek Quiet seek Nonrecoverable read...
... following web page: www.seagate.com/support/service/ From this page, click on distribution units. Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. specification, which may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. **During periods of purchase. Drive specification Vibration, operating Vibration, nonoperating Drive acoustics, sound power (bels) Active Idle** Performance seek Quiet seek Nonrecoverable read...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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.... To determine the warranty for your drive. 50,000 Yes *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to operational levels. Drive specification Vibration, operating Vibration, nonoperating Drive acoustics, sound power (bels) Active Idle** Performance seek Quiet seek Nonrecoverable read 0.73%... number) and country of drive idle, some offline activity may increase acoustic and power to hard drive capacity. G 7 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. specification, which may occur according to access the following web page: www.seagate.com/support/service/ From...
.... To determine the warranty for your drive. 50,000 Yes *One Gbyte equals one billion bytes when referring to operational levels. Drive specification Vibration, operating Vibration, nonoperating Drive acoustics, sound power (bels) Active Idle** Performance seek Quiet seek Nonrecoverable read 0.73%... number) and country of drive idle, some offline activity may increase acoustic and power to hard drive capacity. G 7 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. specification, which may occur according to access the following web page: www.seagate.com/support/service/ From...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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... which these drives are formatted, benchmark tests that include command overhead or measure logical seeks may produce results that vary from these specifications. 2.7 Start/stop (sec) ST31000340NS 20 (max) 10 (max) 20 (max) ST3750330NS 9 (max) ST3500320NS, ST3250310NS 8 (max) Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. However, due to the manner in performance mode. 2.5 Physical...
... which these drives are formatted, benchmark tests that include command overhead or measure logical seeks may produce results that vary from these specifications. 2.7 Start/stop (sec) ST31000340NS 20 (max) 10 (max) 20 (max) ST3750330NS 9 (max) ST3500320NS, ST3250310NS 8 (max) Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. However, due to the manner in performance mode. 2.5 Physical...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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... mode The buffer remains enabled, and the drive accepts all commands and returns to Active mode when disc access is necessary. 12 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev....Sleep mode The drive enters Sleep mode after it receives a Hard Reset or Soft Reset from its specified delay times to zero. After receiving a reset, the drive exits Sleep mode... Each time the drive performs an Active function (read /write current. 2.8.3 Voltage tolerance Voltage tolerance (including noise): 5V +10% / -7.5% 12V +10% / -7.5% 2.8.4 Power-management modes The drive provides programmable power ...
... mode The buffer remains enabled, and the drive accepts all commands and returns to Active mode when disc access is necessary. 12 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev....Sleep mode The drive enters Sleep mode after it receives a Hard Reset or Soft Reset from its specified delay times to zero. After receiving a reset, the drive exits Sleep mode... Each time the drive performs an Active function (read /write current. 2.8.3 Voltage tolerance Voltage tolerance (including noise): 5V +10% / -7.5% 12V +10% / -7.5% 2.8.4 Power-management modes The drive provides programmable power ...
Barracuda ES.2 SATA Product Manual
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...repeated more than two times per second. 2.9.5.2 Nonoperating shock The nonoperating shock level that the drive is mounted securely with the performance levels specified in performance when subsequently put into operation is derated linearly to a maximum operating shock of 70 Gs .... G 13 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Ambient temperature Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of 2 msec. Shocks should not exceed 60°C (140°F) within the operating ambient conditions. Actual drive case temperature should...
...repeated more than two times per second. 2.9.5.2 Nonoperating shock The nonoperating shock level that the drive is mounted securely with the performance levels specified in performance when subsequently put into operation is derated linearly to a maximum operating shock of 70 Gs .... G 13 Barracuda ES.2 Serial ATA Product Manual, Rev. 2.9 Environmental specifications 2.9.1 Ambient temperature Ambient temperature is defined as the temperature of 2 msec. Shocks should not exceed 60°C (140°F) within the operating ambient conditions. Actual drive case temperature should...