Was made after about mid-year, Seagate Technology LL.C finally launches newest product, ie, 2 TB enterprise-class disk drives as new members of the family of SAS and SATA drives.Type Constellation 2.5 inches and 3.5 inches Constellation ES comes with this new model 6Gb/sec serial SCSI or serial ATA 3Gb/sec, and includes features that allow them to turn off power when not in use to save energy usage.
Last month, Western Digital Corp.. (WD) also released 2TB drive, but SATA is the type intended for desktop applications and other external storage. Products using this property WD 500GB disc 4, in which each area has the 400Gb per square inch. This product has a transfer speed and 32MB cache 3Gb/sec. Authorized market price is U.S. $ 299.
Model ES constellation and the constellation property Seagate also uses 4-speed dial with a round of 7200 rpm and more intended for the operation of the data center. This product comes with a 32MB cache on SATA models and 16MB cache on SAS models. This second type of model is projected to replace the Barracuda ES is also owned by Seagate.
Type the constellation will be available this quarter with a capacity of 160GB and 500GB. Meanwhile, ES constellation is available on the third quarter of this year with a capacity of 500GB, 1TB and 2TB.
Seagate said that they target a new model for this application Tier 2, or central storage of data range, ie at the bottom of the Fiber Channel and 15,000 rpm SAS drives, which is used for primary storage. Seagate is the new product will be placed on the chip layout and the server in between the main storage and tape archive system.
Seagate also emphasize again that this product can save energy by using the firmware from Seagate PowerChoice while it is not used, so that energy can save nearly 54% in the company environment.
Unfortunately, until now Seagate has not announced the official price of both this new type.
