Seagate's small form factor screamer
Seagate has accelerated its Savvio 2.5-inch drive up to 15,000rpm and doubled its SAS speed, making it the fastest small form factor drive on the market. Seagate Savvio 15K.2 drive The Savvio 15K.2 has a SAS 2.0 interface running at 6Gbit/s and comes in either 73GB or 146GB capacities. It is optionally a self-encrypting drive …
Really pushing the areal density...
... squeezing 2.09 TiB onto those tiny little platter(s) ...
New?
Surely it's only been an update? - the 15K SFF SAS drives have been around for a couple of years. Now if they can get the capacity above 146GB for this spindle speed it would be news...
...and..
...yes I know the previous 15K drives were only 72GB, but they still existed!
Mines the one with the HP catalogue in the pocket
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