Seagate Introduces Fastest HDD to Date

Seagate Technology introduced its 2.5-inch, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) "Savvio 15K" drive -- the world's fastest hard drive to date. The Savvio 15K drive is suited for mainstream enterprise applications in both large enterprise data centers and small, medium businesses. The drive offers a number of advantages over 15K-rpm 3.5-inch drives including: size (70% smaller), weight (1.12 lbs less), power (30% lower), drive seek time (12% faster than any other drive) and reliability (1.6 million hour MTBF). Initially, the drive will ship at 36GB and 73GB capacities.

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