Seagate Technology has launched Seagate Enterprise Performance 15K HDD v6. Featuring capacities up to 900GB, the drive optimizes mission-critical workloads by delivering data performance (up to 315MB/s sustained transfer rate), enabling enterprise and cloud customers to move critical data where it is needed fast to ensure smooth and seamless connected experiences for business, organization and consumer users - all the while lowering total cost of ownership through high reliability, security and easy data center integration.
"Seagate is once again driving innovation to meet the needs of today’s data-driven economy," said John Morris, Vice-President of Global HDD products, Seagate. "Our new Enterprise Performance 15K HDD ensures that the data is secure, available on demand and always bringing more value to our customers. With Seagate’s broad portfolio of both HDDs and SSDs, we are able to cover the full range of storage solutions, delivering high performance and capacity with affordable versatility to meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s data centers."
The Enterprise Performance 15K HDD is a high-capacity, 2.5-inch small form factor drive designed for data center efficiency requiring minimum operating power in a dense server environment. Utilizing Seagates FastFormat feature, it is available in both a 512 native and a single advanced format (512e and 4Kn) model that supports current and future systems. The drive provides the ability to address more workloads with less complexity. It also provides robust drive-level data security and data integrity while the drive is at rest, recording or retired, as well as proven quality and field reliability, protecting from data loss and unneeded expense.
Supported by demonstrated technologies and Seagates proven reliability and quality commitment, the new Enterprise Performance 15K HDD family delivers enterprise-class specifications such as 2 million hours MTBF (mean time between failures) and a low annualized failure rate of 0.44 per cent. It will be available worldwide this quarter.
