Comments for: Seagate announces 2.5" Savvio 15K

#18. Posted at 11:01 AM on Jan 16th 2007

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sroylance

Just to re-interate what others have said: this is a server drive. Most of HP's ProLiant servers are now built using small-form-factor serial attached slots that can hold either high-performance SAS drives or high-capacity SATA drives.

#18, All of the tier 1's are doing this: Dell, HP, IBM, and Sun. ... : arb_npx (#31) «

#30. Posted at 04:48 PM on Jan 17th 2007

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AbRASiON

I really want to see the review, the raptor is no longer fast enough over a 200gb per platter 7200rpm drive

I sold my 36gb's - got a 74gb, difference not enough to justify and re-sold it (great re-sale on a raptor)

I want something DAMNED fast, like 50% faster than a raptor, could this be it?

#29. Posted at 02:00 PM on Jan 17th 2007

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provoko

15k rpm? Why not 20 and 30, this is the year 2007, we should have hard drives spinning at 150k rpm! Haha.

#1. Posted at 04:31 AM on Jan 16th 2007

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Bensam123

w00t a hard drive review...

I hope the difference between SAS and SATA will be explained in full detail cause I've been hearing different things from different people.

#1, same here. EXPLAIN! : albundy (#19) «

#19, SAS uses the same physical interconnect as SATA, and devi... : bwoodring (#22) «

#22, That was my guess as well... but thats just what I hea... : Bensam123 (#25) «

#25, You can hook SATA devices up to SAS controllers - b... : Cova (#27) «

#27, Problem solved. : Bensam123 (#28) «

#24. Posted at 03:37 PM on Jan 16th 2007

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#23. Posted at 03:20 PM on Jan 16th 2007

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Cova

I wonder if they're finally putting both SAS ports on their drives. The SAS spec calls for dual-ported drives, but all of the SAS drives I have so far (which would all be savvio's from HP) only have 1.

#21. Posted at 02:06 PM on Jan 16th 2007

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ripfire

15k RPM? Psh. It's 2007 already. It's all about the solid-states and hybrids baby!

#20. Posted at 01:47 PM on Jan 16th 2007

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Usacomp2k3

Shhh. Don't tell Leor!

#17. Posted at 10:36 AM on Jan 16th 2007, Edited at 10:36 AM on Jan 16th 2007

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Krogoth

I also suspect that mass of platters is a factor. Higher density units are heavier by mere mgs, but that difference can greatly change the long-term reiliability of the motor at extreme RPMs.

Meant as a reply to # 7

#4. Posted at 06:20 AM on Jan 16th 2007

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flip-mode

WOAH! I'm impressed. It'd be cool to see a desktop stuffed with these. SAS? Is that a form of serial ATA?

#4, SAS stands for Serial Attached SCSI, but the Wikipedia entry... : R2P2 (#5) «

#5, Wiki is far from truth on earth. : Shintai (#10) «

#10, Try looking it up in Britannica :) : Tupuli (#13) «

#5, SATA and SAS are electrically compatible. Most but not al... : draksia (#12) «

#12, Crap.. so much for putting this in a laptop :( Adi : adisor19 (#16) «

#15. Posted at 10:10 AM on Jan 16th 2007, Edited at 12:30 PM on Jan 16th 2007

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Krogoth

Correction, it will have the fastest random seek time not the best STR. This drive makes a trade-off for areal density to get a better random seek time.