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Small is beautiful for Xyratex arrays

Anonymous Coward

The last paragraph 

The last paragraph confuses me since HP have been shipping a SFF drive shelf since the beginning of 2006.

Anonymous Coward

This one's new 

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HP have had MSA50 10-SFF and MSA70 25-SFF for a while now. This is different as it also houses the dual MSA2K-G2 controllers in the back of the enclosure and allows up to 3 x MSA70's or be hung off the back, for 99-SFF drives.

Chris Mellor

Huh, shows what I know :-( 

Xyratex said it actually announced its 2U24 drive SP1224 about a year ago. Yesterday's announcement is about Xyratex being the first to qualify and support Seagate's new Savvio 15K2 SFF drive that others have not qualified for release. The slower Savvio HDD was available but Xyratex is the first to release the faster 15K2.

Chris.