Seagate Releases Record Setting 2TB Enterprise Drive

Seagate Releases Record-Setting 2TB Enterprise Drive

By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2010-03-08

Companies that don't have to deal with either millions of customers or HD video should be pretty much set for data storage if they choose to take advantage of Seagate's latest move. And even those organizations might be able figure something out, since Seagate has released what it's calling the industry's first 2TB enterprise-class drives.

These drives - which are part a larger "family" of drives - sound quite impressive. A formal announcement got a few somewhat run-of-the-mill details out of the way by stating that the drives in this group measure 3.5 inches, run at 7,200 RPM, and come built to handle capacities of 500GB, 1TB and 2TB.

The announcement then continued, "Supporting up to 76TB per square foot, it offers best-in-class reliability, leading 6Gb/s SAS or SATA 3Gb/s performance, PowerChoice optimized power and cooling technology, and a government-grade security option . . ."

Buyers should be able to store a massive amount of information in a very small physical space, then, even as transfers will remain fast, the electric bill shouldn't skyrocket, and all of the information should stay safe. Not bad.

Carla Kennedy, vice president of the Seagate Enterprise Product Line Management, also promised, "Nearline is the fastest growing segment in enterprise storage and Seagate is committed to meeting the market demands of its OEM and system integrator partners in this space."

Of course, companies can hardly be expected to say negative things about themselves and their products. But cynics might be happy to hear that individuals representing Dell, GreenBytes, and Rorke Technology have all applauded the Constellation ES family of drives.

That leaves just one last subject to address: the not-entirely-simple matter of obtaining these drives. Seagate hasn't yet said how much they're supposed to cost, and so you won't find order forms dotting the Web. Contacting the company appears to be the only path at the moment.

Obviously, that could be a bad sign, given that price tags are most often hidden when they're huge, but it could be a good one, too, if Seagate's delayed regular sales while it meets partners' demands.

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