Small Form Factor Drive Storage Doubles

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Have you been waiting for higher capacities on your 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives?  HP will launch the 300GB 3G SAS 10K SFF Enterprise Drive shortly.  With this drive you will get more for less:

- More storage capacity than any other SFF drive in the market

- 50% less power usage in 70% less space than 3.5-inch 15K drives.

This drive is an enterprise drive, ideally suited for those environments for servers and storage solutions running business critical, high I/O and heavy workload applications.  They provide the high performance and maximum reliability (about 3.5 times that of Entry Drives) required by

• Near 24/7 operating environments


• Large databases


• High-transaction applications such as e-mail, ERP, and CRM


• Real-time customer facing environments

Being the leader in the industry when it comes to small form factor SAS drives, HP is known to ship more small form factor drives than any other OEM.  With integrated HP technology, such as Systems Insight Manager, SmartStart and HP Flash utilities, you can take advantage of pre-failure alerts and avoid costly data loss and un-planned downtime.  HP also provides a pre-failure warranty allowing you to replace a degrading drive before it actually fails.  To further simplify support processes, HP drives are covered under the server CarePack.

To find out more about HP drives, click here.

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How is this drive better than Seagate's Savvio 10.3 SFF 300GB 10K drive with its 6Gbits SAS II interface and full disk encryption option?

Chris.

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Um....several other manufacturers sell 300GB SFF drives, and have for over a year.  So how does HP figure their drive has more storage capacity than "any other drive on the market"?   300Gb is 300GB...so how can HP's be larger than existing 2.5" 300GB SFFs?

Either explain, or edit this entry to make it accurate - as it stands now, this blog entry is a li....well, let's just say if it were advertising it would probably have to be pulled.

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HP’s initial offering is the Seagate Savvio 10.3.  HP engineering has been working very closely with Seagate to help bring this technology to our customers.   This initial release is the 3G version of this drive.  The 6G version will be launched around March 2009.  

Seagate has made announcements about the 6Gb/s SAS interface and encryption capability, but there are significant infrastructure items on the system side that need to be put in place to fully support these features.  Right now many customers are unclear about their needs for enterprise encryption.  HP is working with Seagate (and the rest of our partners), to develop solutions that will meet customer needs.  The industry is still qualifying all of the infrastructure pieces (controllers, backplanes, etc) together to provide systems which operate at 6Gb.  While our HDD partners have provided drives with 6Gb/s SAS and encryption to OEMs for testing, customers cannot run 6Gb/s SAS today.