Seagate Savvio 10K.4 Hard Drives

SFF Transition Enabler for External Enterprise

For OEMs and system designers who want to transition to 2.5-inch drives, the Seagate Savvio 10K.4 drive is the ideal solution for enterprise SAN, NAS and DAS. The drive extends widespread market adoption of SFF from enterprise servers into external storage systems with the highest capacity and best reliability available in a small form factor, 10K-RPM enterprise drive.

World’s Highest Capacity and Reliability

The first 2.5-inch, 10K-RPM enterprise drive with a 600GB capacity, the Savvio 10K.4 drive is optimal when building high-capacity, low-power SFF solutions. The first drive to support a 2M-hour mean time between failures (MTBF), it has an annualized failure rate (AFR) of 0.44%—a 20 percent improvement over previous generations. A head ramp load/unload feature moves arms and heads away from media for improved device handling.
The Savvio 10K.4 drive supports 6Gb/s SAS, with dual-port communications to improve interface reliability, speed, data integrity and system scalability. It is the first 10K-RPM, 2.5-inch hard drive to offer Fibre Channel interface support (4Gb/s FC).

Optimize ROI With Low Power and Data Security

Using 50% less power than a 3.5-inch 15K drive, the Savvio 10K.4 drive is energy efficient. The  PowerChoice feature for T10-compliant power management lets customers tailor systems to user defined performance and power consumption goals.
The Savvio 10K.4 drive also offers options for improved data integrity and data-at-rest security. Protection Information (PI) detects corruption of data in flight between the host system and the drive. TCG-compliant Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and FIPS Self-Encrypting Drive options secure data at rest—reducing end-user drive retirement costs while lowering the risk of unauthorized data breaches throughout the device’s lifecycle.
For added physical security and more stringent regulatory compliance needs, the FIPS SED model is FIPS 140-2 Validated for use with sensitive but unclassified or protected (A or B) class data. These Seagate Secure models help OEMs and system builders gain competitive advantage, differentiate solutions (with strong data security), sell to new customers (that require strong data security), and protect brand equity (and customer confidence).

   Key Advantages

• World’s highest-capacity SFF drive (up to 600GB) reduces $/GB costs.
• 20% higher reliability than any other drive available and the industry’s first 2M-hour MTBF drive to provide 0.44% AFR.
• Second generation 6Gb/s SAS with dual-port communication and first SFF hard drive with 4Gb/s FC support.
• SFF and low power consumption reduce end-user cooling and energy costs.
• PowerChoice feature for T10-compliant power management enables IT organizations to tailor systems for performance and power consumption.
• Protection Information (PI) option detects corruption of data in flight between the host system and the drive.
• Head ramp load/unload feature for improved device handling reliability.
• TCG-compliant Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) security option (SAS models only) eliminates the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives, enables secure return of drives for warranty or expired lease purposes, and enables organizations to securely repurpose or sell hard drives.
• FIPS Self-Encrypting Drive option provides all the benefits of SED and is NIST certified to meet U.S., Canada and U.K. federal data encryption compliance requirements.
• OEMs, system designers and IT organizations can reduce system complexity and standardize on common form factors, interfaces and security standards.

   Best-Fit Applications

• Mainstream Enterprise External Storage Arrays (SAN, NAS, DAS)
• Power and/or Space Constrained Data Centers
• Drive Life Extension and Drive Retirement Simplification Strategies