Seagate Launches World's Fastest Hard Drive for Mission Critical Applications

[btarunr]

Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in storage solutions, today launched the industry's fastest and highest-performing hard drive-the Seagate Enterprise Performance 15K HDD v6. Featuring capacities up to 900 GB, the drive optimizes mission critical workloads by delivering the industry's highest data performance (up to 315 MB/s sustained transfer rate), enabling enterprise and cloud customers to move critical data where it's needed fast to ensure smooth and seamless connected experiences for business, organization and consumer users-all while lowering total cost of ownership through high reliability, security and easy data center integration.

"Seagate is once again driving innovation to meet the needs of today's data-driven economy," said John Morris, vice president of global HDD products at Seagate. "Our new Enterprise Performance 15K HDD ensures that the data is secure, available on demand and always bringing more value to our customers. With Seagate's broad portfolio of both HDDs and SSDs, we're able to cover the full range of storage solutions, delivering high performance and capacity with affordable versatility to meet the needs of today's and tomorrow's data centers."



"Performance demands on enterprise datacenters today are increasing as customers consider agile storage solutions to handle diverse workloads. The key to success is to apply the right technologies to the right workloads, and we are seeing increased adoption of hybrid arrays of HDDs and SSDs enhanced by software-based caching," said Brian Payne, executive director, server solutions, Dell EMC. "By delivering higher performance and capacity, Seagate's latest Enterprise Performance 15K HDD will be a sound investment for dynamic server-storage environments."

The demand for 15K HDD technology in servers continues to meet the needs of data center managers aiming to manage costs while addressing mission critical workloads, performance bottlenecks and network complexity. The Enterprise Performance 15K HDD addresses the demand for higher capacities with a combination of performance innovations in enhanced read and write caching techniques for maximizing data acquisition. The drive is also outfitted with enterprise‐class reliability for consistent mission critical performance in a 24x7 multi‐drive environment.

The Enterprise Performance 15K HDD is a high-capacity, 2.5-inch small form factor drive designed for data center efficiency requiring minimum operating power in a dense server environment. Utilizing Seagate's FastFormat feature, it is available in both a 512 native and a single advanced format (512e and 4Kn) model that supports current and future systems. The drive provides the ability to address more workloads with less complexity. It also provides robust drive-level data security and data integrity while the drive is at rest, recording or retired, as well as proven quality and field reliability, protecting from data loss and unneeded expense.

Supported by demonstrated technologies and Seagate's proven reliability and quality commitment, the new Enterprise Performance 15K HDD family delivers enterprise-class specifications such as 2 million hours MTBF (mean time between failures) and a low annualized failure rate of 0.44 percent. It will be available worldwide this quarter.

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[Prima.Vera]

Not sure how this compares to 1TB SSD price wise, my my guess is that the price is simmilar.
And that begs the question, isn't the time that Data Centres move on from those SCSI HDD drives to SSD based ones? I mean double the performance for simmilar price seems like a no brainer...

 

[wolar]

Not sure how this compares to 1TB SSD price wise, my my guess is that the price is simmilar.
And that begs the question, isn't the time that Data Centres move on from those SCSI HDD drives to SSD based ones? I mean double the performance for simmilar price seems like a no brainer...

But HDDs can be recovered if damaged , SSDs cannot. So they may choose to take the safest route even if some SSDs have great life.

 

[Melvis]

Who buys Seagate's anymore these days really?

 

[Prima.Vera]

But HDDs can be recovered if damaged , SSDs cannot. So they may choose to take the safest route even if some SSDs have great life.

In Servers and/or Data Centers everything is RAID-ed, so if 1 drives fail, you just replace it and dispose. 0 drama.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Not sure how this compares to 1TB SSD price wise, my my guess is that the price is simmilar.

Probably a lot more expensive than slow SSDs (<500 MB/s) but cheaper than fast SSDs (>1000 MB/s).

And that begs the question, isn't the time that Data Centres move on from those SCSI HDD drives to SSD based ones? I mean double the performance for simmilar price seems like a no brainer...

Reliability and longevity. SSDs can die without warning; HDDs usually give you some advanced warning and the platter, more often than not, still retains the data. I also suspect there's situations where an HDD can be used that an SSD cannot (e.g. high altitude aviation and satellites).

Who buys Seagate's anymore these days really?

I do.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Reliability and longevity. SSDs can die without warning; HDDs usually give you some advanced warning and the platter, more often than not, still retains the data. I also suspect there's situations where an HDD can be used that an SSD cannot (e.g. high altitude aviation and satellites).

Well, see my answer on the above post. In Enterprise environments, nobody really care if a drive fails, they just replace it on fly.
As for the altitude and all, actually HDD are very prone to pressure variation, especially the ones filled with Helium.

So either way, I see zero advantages at the moment of an HDD over SSD (not even price anymore). Let's face it. HDDs needs to go the way of the Doodoo, the same as Floppy Drives, CD-ROMs, PCI/AGP/ISA ports, dial-up Internet and other Dinosaurs of IT. Really...

 

[Frick]

What exactly makes HDDs different from one and other? I mean features and the inner workings of them.

 

[alucasa]

When it comes to HDD, I buy seagate almost exclusively due to their awesome easy to use warranty in Canada. They are also the only ones that have 4TB laptop HDD on consumer market.

As for the topic, the main issues with 15k speed HDD is the heat and vibration. I do not see any advantage at all over 1TB SSD. In fact, SSD appears to be superior in all aspects.

 

[Disparia]

If we split it up to who buys Seagate enterprise drives and consumer drives then the answers are "Yes" and "Hell no!". Been using/watching their line-up for 20 years, the gap between those segments seems vast. Like consumer drives are intentionally gimped. Not the experience I have gotten with any other manufacturer.

Well, see my answer on the above post. In Enterprise environments, nobody really care if a drive fails, they just replace it on fly.
As for the altitude and all, actually HDD are very prone to pressure variation, especially the ones filled with Helium.

So either way, I see zero advantages at the moment of an HDD over SSD (not even price anymore). Let's face it. HDDs needs to go the way of the Doodoo, the same as Floppy Drives, CD-ROMs, PCI/AGP/ISA ports, dial-up Internet and other Dinosaurs of IT. Really...

Acceptance isn't an issue. People buying these drives are not doing so out of a belief that they are technically superior. They have looked at the situation at hand and found them to be the best option.

Just like your examples, quick acceptance for the "new thing" but the decline in usage of the "old thing" to insignificant levels took a decade or more.

 

[iiee]

When it comes to HDD, I buy seagate almost exclusively due to their awesome easy to use warranty in Canada. They are also the only ones that have 4TB laptop HDD on consumer market.

Are u sure that is practical...? That 2.5" 4TB hdd is 15mm think and won't fit into 99.9% of the laptop. Even 12mm hdd won't fit into 99% laptop let alone 15mm.

 

[alucasa]

Are u sure that is practical...? That 2.5" 4TB hdd is 15mm think and won't fit into 99.9% of the laptop. Even 12mm hdd won't fit into 99% laptop let alone 15mm.

I use them in mobile racks. I don't use 3.5 inch HDDs anymore.

 

[natr0n]

Seagate Launches World's Fastest Hard Drive for Mission Critical Failures.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Well, see my answer on the above post. In Enterprise environments, nobody really care if a drive fails, they just replace it on fly.

There are massive performance penalties when rebuilding a degraded RAID. 15K HDDs is a nice compromise between HDDs and SSDs: it is less likely to fail meaning fewer RAID rebuilds in a given period and it provides SSD-like performance.

As for the altitude and all, actually HDD are very prone to pressure variation, especially the ones filled with Helium.

These contain no helium. Additionally, their dense metal construction provides some natural shielding against radiation found at high altitudes.

So either way, I see zero advantages at the moment of an HDD over SSD (not even price anymore). Let's face it. HDDs needs to go the way of the Doodoo, the same as Floppy Drives, CD-ROMs, PCI/AGP/ISA ports, dial-up Internet and other Dinosaurs of IT. Really...

HDDs still make a lot more sense in RAID than SSDs, especially large RAIDs. You get a lot of performance and capacity for a reasonable price. A friend of mine just ordered 8 x 2 TB Seagate drives + RAID6 card for ~$900. That's 12 TB of double-redundant storage. Write performance will be kind of crappy but read performance is measured in GB/s.

 

[R-T-B]

Who buys Seagate's anymore these days really?

Seagate can make good stuff. Their enterprise stuff is quite good. I'm using one as my primary drive right now.

 

[Steevo]

I also suspect there's situations where an HDD can be used that an SSD cannot (e.g. high altitude aviation and satellites).

Actually flash media is preferred as mechanical drives require gas density to remain around standard levels for the heads to float/fly above the platters. Flash also takes less energy and can be hardened against radiation easier.

 

[jihadjoe]

Seagate Launches World's Fastest Hard Drive for Mission Critical Failures.

There's a huge difference between Seagate desktop drives and their 15ks though. I managed a bunch of IBM boxes that ran Seagate Cheetahs and haven't seen a single one of those drives fail.

 

[R-T-B]

In fact, SSD appears to be superior in all aspects.

Endurance. If you're doing a lot of writes, constantly, HDD will always be better from a cost/performance perspective than an enterprise endurance-ready SSD.