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Seagate Launched Savvio 15K, A Small Form Factor Enterprise HD

Seagate's new Savvio HDD features 15K-rpm in a 2.5-inch SAS box.

HP's new Savvio 15K has a limited energy appetite, takes up less space, and provides lighting-fast seektimes. Another factor in its favor when deciding on HDDs for servers is that Savvio has the best reliability ever: 1.6 million hour Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF).

Sherman Black, senior VP and general manager, Seagate Enterprise Compute Business: "Seagate is committed to delivering solutions that will meet the needs of today's demanding IT environment, and no product demonstrates this better than the Savvio 15K drive. The development of the 2.5-inch Enterprise form factor represented a new way of thinking. Now, with the added number of performance and capacity choices offered, many of the leading enterprise system makers are transitioning from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch form factor enterprise solutions."

The Savvio 15K drive is found in HP ProLiant servers; Paul Perez, VP at Storage, Networks and Infrastructure, HP:

"The Seagate Savvio 15K drives running in HP ProLiant servers and storage devices delivered record-breaking benchmarks at nearly 50 percent lower cost- per-transaction. The performance, reliability and power consumption benefits of deploying 2.5-inch Small Form Factor 15K drives are clear, and HP continues to drive the industry transition to them as the principal storage platform inside the HP ProLiant and BladeSystem solutions."

Seagate Technology is a major American manufacturer of hard drives, founded in 1979 and based in Scotts Valley, California, registered in the Cayman Islands. Their hard drives are used in a variety of computers, from servers, desktops, and laptops to other consumer devices such as digital video recorders, the Microsoft Xbox and the Creative Zen Micro line of digital audio players. Seagate boasts being the world's largest computer hard disk manufacturer and the oldest independent hard disk maker still in operation.