Seagate Savvio 15K.2 15,000 RPM 2.5-inch HDD
by Sze | Filed under Storage
Seagate Savvio 15K.2, successor of the Savvio 15K, is the highest performing, greenest drive for enterprise storage. It is the second-generation 15,000 RPM 2.5-inch drive. The Seagate Savvio 15K.2 features the PowerTrim technology that reduces power up to 70% compare to 3.5-inch 15K drives.
The Savvio 15K.2 has the SAS 2.0 interface offering a 6-Gb/s transfer rates. It can get the Self-Encrypting Drive option for government-grade data security. 146GB and 73GB capacities are available.
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I’ve reviewed this disk, the Savvio 10K.3 and the Constellation against two 3.5″ disks: The Cheetah 15K.5 and the Cheetah 15K.6.
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Mick, please realize that this Savvio drive is not a 10k RPM disk, it is a 15k RPM disk. Capacities will rise over time and a 15,000 RPM drive in a 2.5″ enclosure that offers 146GB is fairly impressive. 146GB could be plenty for plenty of web servers if striped on RAID1+0 for extra size and redundancy. One is sacrificing capacity for speed. If you need capacity and speed, downgrading to a 10,000 RPM drive will provide a sufficient compromise.
146GB not big enough. Period. End.
In fact, until 10K.3, VelociRaptor was the only 300GB 2.5″ in town.
Sad to see the mighty seagate producing boring products.
They call these “green,” yet its far greener to stripe the crap out of 1.0TB disks if you need to get to a multi-TB volume size. 7 of these little disks = 1 1TB disk.
Crap. Boring. Make a 300GB version and I’ll start to look. 150GB is already obsolete.