The Seagate Savvio 10K.3 drive offers the best combination of power efficiency and enterprise performance, with up to 300 GB of capacity for mainstream server and external storage applications for the enterprise. The Savvio 10K.3 drive with PowerTrim technology uses 75 percent less power than a comparable 3.5-inch 300GB drive for the lowest power profile of any Tier 1 mission-critical drive. It is 70 percent smaller than 3.5-inch drives, enabling more system airflow, which results in lower cooling costs. This third-generation Savvio drive delivers a staggering 60 percent system-level performance increase. These 2.5-inch advantages translate into greater overall value and reduced total cost of ownership for IT organizations and administrators who wish to optimize their data center's power and performance efficiency. The industry's first 2.5-inch drive to implement the new SAS 2.0 feature set and the world's first drive to operate at 6-Gb/s transfer rates, the Savvio 10K.3 drive is ideally suited for use in high-end network storage applications. The SAS 2.0 feature set and 6-Gb/s transfer rate support larger topologies by connecting more expanders, host bus adapters and RAID controllers within or across more storage arrays, by communicating over longer distances with high signal integrity, and by moving data two times faster, thereby doubling data throughput.
For enterprise external storage OEMs and system designers who want to transition to 2.5-inch drives, the Seagate® Savvio® 10K drive is the first 600GB, 2M-hour MTBF, 10K-RPM drive that enables widespread enterprise market adoption of SFF for external storage solutions. Unlike other 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives, this fourth generation drive delivers high capacity (low $/GB), high reliability and energy efficiency to enable widespread adoption of 2.5-inch based NAS, SAN and DAS solutions. The PowerChoice™ feature allows IT organizations to tailor systems for performance and power consumption. Optimizing ROI, the drive offers Protection Information (PI) and Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options for improved data integrity and data-at-rest security.

Seagate® Savvio® 10K Hard Drives What the experts are saying... The industry-leading high capacity 2.5-inch 10,000-RPM drive Seagate® Savvio® 10K 2.5-inch drives deliver unmatched reliability, a low cost-per-gigabyte and the lowest power profile of any mission-critical Tier 1, enterprise drives. That makes them the perfect drives for mainstream enterprise environments that require high capacity, performance and lower power consumption, including:
Mainstream enterprise servers and external storage arrays
Database transaction processing
Power- and space-constrained data centers
Drive life extension and drive retirement simplification strategies1
“…this is the first time we saw such capacity and speed at this small form factor size, and overall the Seagate Savvio 10K.4 600GB 2.5" 10,000RPM 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI hard drives deserve a 9 out of 10 points and Bjorn3D's Golden Bear Award!” - Bjorn3D, April 2010 Why Choose the Seagate Savvio 10K? World's highest-capacity 2.5-inch 10K-RPM drive (up to 600GB)
Delivers 20 percent higher reliability than any other drive available as the industry's first 2M-hour MTBF2 drive to provide a 0.44 percent annualized failure rate (AFR)
Includes second-generation 6Gb/s SAS with dual-port communication and is the first SFF hard drive with 4Gb/s FC support
Reduces end-user cooling and energy costs with SFF and low power consumption
Features PowerChoice™ technology for T10-compliant power management, empowering IT organizations to tailor systems for performance and power consumption
Detects corruption of data in flight between the host system and the drive with the Protection Information (PI) option3
Improves device handling reliability with the head ramp load/unload feature
TCG-compliant, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) security option (SAS models only) eliminates the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives, enables safe return of drives for warranty or expired lease purposes and allows organizations to securely repurpose or sell hard drives (not available in all countries)1
1 Self-Encrypting models require TCG-compliant host or controller support
2 Mean time between failures
3 Requires PI compliant host or controller support

“Our customers face challenging storage needs requiring the most efficient use of space and power while maintaining the highest performance possibleThe new 2.5-inch 10K-rpm 600GB capacity point allows a doubling of capacity within the same rack space of current 3.5-inch 15K 600GB drives while increasing overall system-level performance and decreasing power usage.” - Howard Shoobe, senior manager, Dell Storage Product Management

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Enterprise-class
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Savvio 10K Drive Specifications Specifications 600 GB1 450 GB1 300 GB1 146 GB1 Model Number ST9600104SS2
ST9600204SS
ST9600204FC3 ST9450304SS2
ST9450404SS
ST9450404FC3 ST9450304SS
ST9300503SS2 ST9146803SS
ST9146703SS2 Capacity Formatted 512 Bytes/Sector (GB) 600 450 300 146.8 External Transfer Rate (MB/s) 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI - - 300 300 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI 600 600 600 600 Performance Spindle Speed (RPM) 10K 10K 10K 10K Average Latency (ms) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 Seek Time Average Read/Write (ms) 3.89/4.54 4.08/4.65 3.6/4.2 3.6/4.2 Track-to-Track Read/Write (ms) 0.30/0.55 0.31/0.57 0.2/0.3 0.2/0.3 Sustained Transfer Rate, Outer to Innder Diameter(MB/s) 141 to 75 141 to 75 129 to 67 129 to 67 Cache, Multisegmented (MB) 16 16 16 16 Configuration/Reliability Disks 3 3 2 1 Heads 6 6 4 2 Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.44% 0.44% 0.55% 0.55% Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 per 10E16 1 per 10E16 1 per 10E16 1 per 10E16 Power Management Typical Operating (amps), +12V/+5V 0.51/0.44 0.53/0.46 0.35/0.39 0.35/0.42 Idle(W) 4.6 4.6 3.5 3.2 Environmental Temperature (°C) Operating 5 to 55 5 to 55 5 to 55 5 to 55 Nonoperating -40 to 70 -40 to 70 -40 to 70 -40 to 70 Vibration Operating, Physical Height (in/mm) 0.583/14.8 0.583/14.8 0.583/14.8 0.583/14.8 Width (in/mm) 2.75/70 2.75/70 2.76/70 2.76/70 Depth (in/mm) 3.945/100.2 3.945/100.2 3.957/100.5 3.957/100.5 Weight (lb/kg) 0.5/0.208 0.5/0.208 0.5/0.227 0.5/0.227 1 One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.
2 Self-Encrypting Drive model; requires TCG-compliant host or controller support.
3 Fibre Channel model specifications are available from the Savvio 10K.4 Fibre Channel Product Manual.

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