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Seagate extends its range of storage products
STORAGE VENDOR Seagate has announced its latest line of data storage products including the Pulsar.2 and Constellation ES.2 lines it expects to launch in the second quarter.
The Pulsar.2 line of solid state disk (SSD) drives has been built from the ground up for use in enterprises and uses multi-level cell (MLC) technology. The largest model will come with optional self-encrypting drive (SED) technology.
The Pulsar.2 comes in four different sizes with 100GB, 200GB, 400GB and 800GB options. They all use 6Gbps SAS and SATA3 interfaces apart from the 800GB model which only comes with SAS. Advanced media-management and protection technology helps protect against unexpected data change or loss.
The drives are hot-pluggable and Seagate claims that they can routinely complete over ten full writes per day. This equates to 15 petabytes or 15,000 terabytes over the life of the drives, which are protected by 5 year warranties.
Most of Seagate's new hard drives will be 2.5-inch units. Seagate has seen a trend in moving towards 2.5-inch drives as that has become the size of choice over the last few years. The range includes two Savvio models spinning at 10k and 15k RPM.
Another addition to the range is the Constellation ES.2, a high capacity 3.5-inch hard drive with 3TB of storage. This hard drive will also come with 6Gbps SAS or SATA3 options as well as SED found on the Pulsar. Its new feature is called RAID Rebuild which can apparently reduce the time for a complete RAID rebuild by 80 per cent. µ
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to be allowed to use computers, and you seem to be one of them. The Google stats that you link to seem to be perfect proof of that. What they show is that for drives under light to moderate use there's about a 5% chance of failure in the first 2 years. In the third year there's about an extra 4% chance. THATS DURING THAT PERIOD, not at the end of it. The chance of a drive failing during any given day is <0 t back your important data up then why should everyone else pay for your stupidity? SSDs have lower failure rates but will still fail at some point too. If your data is important to you then set up some sort of backup system.
Intel and partner Micron (i guess) instead of reducing SLC prices they are upping the least available SSD size. now min available size is 64-GB. this Seagate thingi has followed that same bitchy trend.. say i have a website of barely 50-MB and 3-4-GB DB ... for me a 16-GB SLC (with OS) is sufficient.
I have been like begging online stores for Intel X25 32-GB SLC at lower price... i offered them even to rip warranty to just a month and take all accessories, no matter damaged packaging, no matter no packaging i need just the drive at good price. but even lossing all this ... i was offered some $270 for a 32-GB SLC.
For this day we keep reading news of ... sunny days to come in 3-4 years when prices wil come down and wolf and sheep will drink water from one pool.
Unfortunately SATA drives have basically created disposable PCs as they are highly unreliable. SAS has proved to be marginally more reliable than SATA. SSD's are still unreliable, expensive and not ready for prime time.
The current situation sucks. If you can find enterprise class SCSI HDs it's probably worth the cost if you need reliable HDs.
HDD warranties are worthless.
We don't care if Hard Disk Drives come with a 3, 5 or a lifetime warranty...
It's pointless if the manufacturers don't back that up with a full free data recovery service as well, I hope some day soon international organisations like the EU etc. enforce them to do exactly that.
You all, I presume don’t care about getting a new drive; the data on it is what is important.
A motherboard, CPU and RAM got no important or personal info inside it that anybody wants to recover, but HDD’s do, and that is the difference, because data recovery is exorbitantly expensive for ordinary people.
The failure rate of HDD are so sky high and still busy climbing just ask Google which also complained about it a few years ago, basically saying that the HDD industry is lying through their teeth about failure rates.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en//papers/disk_failures.pdf
Don’t tell me just back it up to another drive, DVD’s, Blu–ray’s or bloody tapes, chances that your 2nd, 3rd 4th 5th etc. drive would also fail is a pretty sure bet !
DVD’s are getting too small in capacity, Blu-ray’s are still after all these years way too expensive, and tape drives, well were must I start ? They are exorbitantly expensive, slow, not really that reliable and also did I mention also exorbitantly expensive.