Tag Archives: Seagate

Will Hybrid drives conquer enterprise storage?

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Ray

I saw where Seagate announced the next generation of their Momentus XT Hybrid (SSD & Disk) drive this week.  We haven’t discussed Hybrid drives much on this blog but it has become a viable product family. I am not planning on describing … Continue reading →

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Disk capacity growing out-of-sight

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Ray

Last week, Hitachi Global Storage Division(acquired by Western Digital, closing in 4Q2011) and Seagate announced some higher capacity disk drives for desk top applications over the past week. Most of us in the industry have become somewhat jaded with respect … Continue reading →

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Are SSDs an invasive species?

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Ray

A head assembly on a Seagate disk drive by Robert Scoble (cc) (from flickr) I was reading about pythons becoming an invasive species in the Florida Everglades and that brought to mind SSDs.  The current ecological niche in data storage … Continue reading →

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Seagate launches their Pulsar SSD

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Ray

Today Seagate announced their new SSD offering, named the Pulsar SSD.  It uses SLC NAND technology and comes in a 2.5″ form factor at 50, 100 or 200GB capacity.  The fact that it uses a 3GB/s SATA interface seems to … Continue reading →

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The coming hard drive capacity wall?

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Ray

Hard drives have been on a capacity tear lately what with perpendicular magnetic recording and tunneling magnetoresistive heads. As evidence of this, Seagate just announced their latest Barracuda XT, a 2TB hard drive with 4 platters with ~500GB/platter at 368Gb/sqin … Continue reading →

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Chart of the month: SPC LRT(tm) performance results

Posted on September 17, 2009 by Ray

The above chart shows the top 12 LRT(tm) (least response time) results for Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1 benchmark. The vertical axis is the LRT in milliseconds (msec.) for the top benchmark runs. As can be seen the two subsystems from … Continue reading →

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SSD vs Drive energy use

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Ray

Recently, the Storage Performance Council (SPC) has introduced a new benchmark series, the SPC-1C/E, which provides detailed energy usage for storage subsystems. So far there have been only two published submissions in this category but we look forward to seeing … Continue reading →

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