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Seagate shipping Constellation hard drive
HARD DISK MANUFACTURER Seagate has announced that it is shipping its 3.5-inch Constellation ES drive, calling it the industry's first 2TB enterprise-class drive featuring 6GB SAS.
The firm said that the drive was pitched at systems builders that want high specification storage with massive capacities, but don't want to destroy the planet with it. So, the drive offers increased power efficiency along with enterprise-class reliability and data security. Seagate explained that ideally these drives will find their way into multi-drive nearline storage environments.
"Nearline is the fastest growing segment in enterprise storage and Seagate is committed to meeting the market demands of its OEM and system integrator partners in this space," said Carla Kennedy, vice president, Seagate enterprise product line management. "Seagate's leadership in technology development, volume manufacturing and supply chain execution has resulted in an exemplary next-generation nearline solution. The Constellation ES drive tackles the concerns of shrinking IT budgets, floor space constraints and energy consumption, efficiently and cost-effectively."
The Constellation ES drives are available with storage capacities of 500GB, 1TB and 2TB, and can support up to 76TB of data per square foot. µ
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It’s a waste of time (literally) putting cache memory on a hard drive. It’s on the wrong side of an interface that simply isn’t designed to work at main-memory speeds.
Far more efficient to rely on the filesystem cache provided by your operating system. Now THAT can be accessed at full main-memory speeds.
do everything for not to make for you and me that HDs with fast flash cache ?
Just imagine any processor without L3 cache...
And only around 8GB of flash, for mere 20 bucks, would do 95-99% of the job SSD do for you
No, they smell big fat profits, they want us pay for entire SSD
That tells us that there is no competition in the market, clearly something else moves it
...the harder, faster, and more explosive the implosion will be when these hard drives fail. Oh they will fail.