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posted on 07 April 2008 13:11

Seagate has announced the world's first 1TB SAS drive.

The 3.5-inch Barracuda ES.2 drive now comes in a 1TB capacity with a serial-attached SCSI interface bringing this SATA capacity level into the SAS performance drive market. Co-incidentally Seagate and PMC-Sierra have just demonstrated a working SAS 2 interface running at 6Gbit/s.

SAS drives, Seagate says, averagely deliver a 135 percent performance boost compared to SATA drives. SAS 2 wil boost this performance advantage. The new drive spins at 7,200rpm, has an average seek time of 8.5msecs, and has both 500GB and 750GB versions available as well as 1TB. There is a 5-year limited warranty.

HP is going to take the new drive up. Ron Noblett, the company's VP for industry standard servers said: "We're pleased to align with Seagate for their hard drive expertise as the new SAS 1TB drive is added to the HP portfolio of Midline drives. These drives will provide the 'pennies per GB economics' of SATA Midline with additional performance as well as the dual port capability our external storage customers demand."

Note the 'midline' term which gets added to online, nearline and offline and upline and whatever is coming down the track or indeed, along the line.

As with the self-encrypting Cheetahs this drive also has power optimising technology.

^{[Chris Mellor.]}