Seagate(R) Introduces Constellation(TM): All-Star Enterprise Hard Drives With the World's Highest Capacity and Power Efficiency
02 Febbraio 2009 - 1:59PM
PR Newswire (US)
The Constellation family includes 2.5-inch nearline hard drive with
lowest enterprise power consumption and record-setting 3.5-inch
7200-rpm 2TB hard drive for nearline Tier 2 enterprise applications
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate
(NASDAQ: STX) today introduced its Constellation(TM) family of new
enterprise storage solutions for Tier 2 nearline storage
applications. The two new drive models, the 2.5-inch Constellation
and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives, include a
combination of features that enable high capacities, increased
power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security.
Both drives also include PowerChoice(TM) from Seagate, which
decreases power consumption by up to 54% for record power savings
in enterprise environments. "The need for greater storage capacity
will continue to expand in multiple directions and dimensions, but
there will be an increasing scrutiny of all storage system
purchases, with an eye to decreasing power consumption, footprint,
and cost per GB in unprecedented ways," said John Monroe, a
research vice president at Gartner. "Performance will not be
ignored, but a flexible balance of capacity, cost per GB, power and
speed will become more crucial in fulfilling end-user storage
demands at varied price points." Constellation The Constellation
2.5-inch hard drive is offered in capacities of 160GB and 500GB
with both 3 Gbps SATA and new SAS 2.0 interface running at 6Gb/s
speeds. As the first SAS 2.0 nearline drive, the Constellation hard
drive enables larger external storage topologies, 100% faster data
throughput and higher signal strength over greater distances -
dramatically increasing storage scalability. The Constellation
family will begin shipping this quarter. "Dell recognizes that
increased capacity and high-reliability are key to enabling further
adoption of small form factor storage within the enterprise. With
new capacities, small form factor drives afford customers
performance and power gains within the same rack space," said
Praveen Asthana, director of Dell Storage. "As an industry-leader
in storage, Dell is pleased to partner with Seagate and be one of
the first companies to offer the Constellation family of drives to
our customers." Constellation ES The 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard
drive will be available in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, and with
an enterprise-class SAS interface as well as a SATA version, and
provides best-in-class capacity and performance. As the world's
only 7200-rpm 3.5-inch hard drive providing up to 2TB of storage,
the record-setting capacity of Constellation ES hard drives are
ideal for 3.5-inch based external storage architectures. With
Constellation ES hard drives, customers don't have to sacrifice
performance in order to gain the highest capacities. The
Constellation ES hard drive will ship in calendar Q3. "Xyratex
continues to work closely with Seagate to advance storage system
innovation to meet both the performance and capacity-based market
requirements," said Todd Gresham, executive vice president and
general manager of the Networked Storage Solutions Division for
Xyratex. The new Constellation family of products compliments
Xyratex's philosophy of delivering cost-effective enterprise-class,
energy efficient storage solutions that help provide our customers
the long-term investment protection they demand." With Seagate's
innovative PowerChoice technology, both Constellation hard drive
models deliver the highest power-reduction savings ever offered in
an enterprise-class HDD, and provide flexible, user-manageable
options to deliver power savings without sacrificing performance,
data integrity, or reliability. In addition, the Constellation
family of drives are backed with field-proven, enterprise-grade
reliability and rated at a full 1.2 million hours MTBF. Delivering
on Seagate's commitment to add security features throughout its
product portfolio, the Constellation family of drives are offered
with optional self-encrypting drive (SED) technology and provide
government-grade data security through the drive's life cycle. SED
technology makes drive retirement and disposal easy by eliminating
the need for the numerous manual processes involved which are often
incomplete, complex, expensive, or prone to error. For critical
information that must remain secure, and because all systems are
eventually retired, whether being relocated, re-purposed, or
disposed of, the information on a Constellation SED hard drive
remains AES-safe. Seagate Unified Storage(TM) architecture delivers
long-term business sustainability Historically, the variety of
drive interfaces, form factors and now, security solutions, can add
complexity and increase costs for both IT professionals and OEMs.
Making the wrong choice today creates storage islands in the data
center with no easy path for upgrades - further complicating an
already complex environment. The Seagate Unified Storage
architecture converges best-of-breed technologies (Serial Attached
SCSI, Small Form Factor and Self-Encrypting Drives) into a
foundation for powerful yet simple storage that boosts business and
operational efficiency while reducing cost and complexity. The
Seagate Unified Storage architecture delivers a storage foundation
for companies that are proactively ensuring the long-term
sustainability of their business through best-in-class IT
practices. Companies will avoid the risk of impacting their own
product quality, competitiveness, or profitability when their
storage system infrastructure and data center footprint is
optimized across power, cooling and performance density. Because
the role of small form factor drives are important to the long-term
efficiency and sustainability of any data center enterprise,
Seagate will be extending this component into all tiers of its
Unified Storage architecture in the future. "With tightening IT
budgets, Seagate is committed to delivering enterprise-class
nearline storage solutions that ensure business sustainability by
optimizing resources, reducing environment, energy or social impact
and satisfying customer requirements without compromising
performance," said Sherman Black, senior vice president, Seagate
Core Marketing and Strategy. "These new Constellation HDDs provide
business continuity in the data center by offering the highest
capacities, the lowest power, and the latest in enterprise-class
data integrity with SAS 2.0 and AES government-grade encryption."
For more information about the Constellation family of drives, in
addition to Seagate's other enterprise storage solutions, visit
http://www.seagate.com/. About Seagate Seagate is the worldwide
leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disk drives
and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of
applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing,
Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business
model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing
to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global
customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all
markets in which it participates. The company is committed to
providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability
to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate
can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com/.
Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered
trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or
other countries. Constellation, PowerChoice and Unified Storage are
either trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology
LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or
other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are
the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard
drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and
one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer's
operating system may use a different standard of measurement and
report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity
is used for formatting and other functions, and thus will not be
available for data storage. Seagate reserves the right to change,
without notice, product offerings or specifications. DATASOURCE:
Seagate Technology CONTACT: David Szabados of Seagate Technology,
+1-831-439-2859, Web Site: http://www.seagate.com/
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