by Pete Steege, Global Marketing, Seagate Technology — May 13, 2009
Back in the day, enterprise disk drives were pretty simple to figure out. They were the fastest and toughest drives on the planet - period. Storage systems would use the newest version available, with pretty much the only choice being capacity.
Now, the game has changed. Enterprise applications have expanded in scope and scale, and storage solutions have evolved in response.
But just like a winning baseball team, the best storage systems combine the strengths of various disk drive technologies to deliver a result better than any single class of drive can provide. Compellent gets this.
Inside Compellent’s Storage Center you'll find up to three types of disk drives working seamlessly together for better results for end-users:
- The Seagate Cheetah 15K drive leads off, and is the speed demon that delivers the goods when it comes to accessing the most active data. With capacities up to 600 GB now, it's no slouch on the capacity front either.
- The Seagate Cheetah NS drive bats cleanup, with Compellent offering 400 GB drives, one of the highest available capacities for a 10K rpm drive. A great balance of performance and capacity for data that's needed fast, but not the most active.
- The Seagate Barracuda ES SATA drive carries the load for the lineup, with 1TB capacity per drive. The Barracuda ES has lower performance than the Cheetah family, but lots of cost effective space -- just what large quantities of less active data need.
Behind every championship baseball team is a championship coach, and storage is no different. Storage Center's unique and automatic blending of storage players is what ultimately helps these drives deliver the goods.
Seagate is proud to be a part of Compellent's team. We continue to lead the industry for storage devices, and we work closely with Compellent to get those innovations implemented as soon as they're ready for the big leagues.
We'd love to hear from you, too - what could Seagate do to make a Compellent solution even better?
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