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SSD vs. SSHD vs. HDD – Who Wins?

By joniclark, posted October 21, 2011

A colleague of mine used this quote in his keynote speech at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara last August.  “If you want to be incrementally better: be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: be cooperative.” Source unknown.

John Moon, Sr. Director of Emerging Systems Integration

Truth is there are a lot of SSD and “SSD-like Hybrid” options in the market today, from chipsets and drivers, to bundles SSD + HDD + board combos, and including Seagate’s Momentus XT the all-in-one solid state hybrid drive. But what frustrated my colleague as he spoke to a large group of industry enablers and eco-system companies, was that they were not all working together collaboratively for the good of the consumer. Critical system components and software would support one technology differently than the others, making it difficult for SSD, HDD, SSHD or other hybrids out there to deliver consistency.

If you want to hear more about John Moon’s challenge to drive higher performance and better durability in your systems, take a look at his very entertaining keynote speech. If you like the way John is pushing the industry to be cooperative then hit the “like” button for him.

 

 

 

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Steve Jobs eliminated the words, “Delayed Gratification”

By joniclark, posted October 6, 2011

We are all aware of how Steve Jobs (and his innovative Apple team) changed our computing lifestyles, but what we may not fully appreciate is how well Steve and Apple also challenged their eco-system of suppliers to innovate and design technology that reaches beyond the norm. One example of this is how the popularity of the iPod, iPhone, and now the iPad created this new “norm” for the response and reaction of computing devices – I’m referring to the  instant response experience.  This new experience is quickly becoming the new expectation from all devices including laptops and desktops and much of it can be attributed to Steve Jobs and Apple.

As suppliers we were really compelled to react to the forces shaping our customers’ experiences. Here at my company, we looked for years for ways to make storage devices that would meet Apple’s challenge for an easy-on experience. We ultimately designed a drive that combined the speed Solid State Memory and the capacity of a Hard Disk Drive into one device so not only do you get the instant response you expect now, but you get the space you need to consume music and movies and even create your own new content — which themselves are dominant requirements of computing thanks in large part to Steve’s inspiration.

So thank you Steve for inspiring us all on so many levels and BTW, I’ll keep your Top 10 Lessons posted on my wall.



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What’s a Crypto Guy like you doing at a Solid State show?

By joniclark, posted September 12, 2011

Solid State storage was everywhere at the Flash Memory Event but just a handful of SSD vendors were talking about encryption in SSDs. Yes, it’s true everyone wants Solid State but is Solid State ready for everyone? If you need security where your data lives most of the time – on your storage device, then you might want to insist that your storage vendor integrates one of the most powerful data protection technologies out there today. Hardware based encryption or Self-encrypting Drives (SED). For hard drives this is a no brainer, SEDs are readily available but on the SSD side we’re still waiting for it. In fact, there is no safer way to wipe an SSD clean of all sensitive data then to cryptographically erase that baby – secure erase. This technology is a must for healthcare, financial, education, government, military and related supporting businesses that have a need to protect data.

Self-encrypting Drives can prevent data theft

To learn more about SEDs check out Seagate security pages and products. To hear more about SSD Secure Erase watch my interview with Monty Forehand, Director of Development Engineering for Self-Encrypting Storage at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara California.  How much more would you pay for your laptop to have encryption designed in from the factory?

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Seagate Ships Pulsar XT.2 To Distribution Channel; SSD’s Outstanding, Consistent Enterprise-Class Real-World Performance Verified By Industry-Standard SPC Result

By Seagate Technology, posted July 18, 2011

CUPERTINO, Calif. – July 18, 2011 – Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today began distribution channel shipments of the Pulsar® XT.2 solid state drive (SSD) that combines outstanding and consistent performance with the data integrity and drive endurance needed for the most demanding enterprise environments, and is on track to commence channel shipments of the Pulsar.2™ SSD, the first Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Flash-enabled SSD from an enterprise hard drive maker, on July 29.

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ITBusinessEdge: SSDs for Targeted Data Environments

By Seagate Technology, posted March 21, 2011

Arthur Cole spoke with Rich Vignes, enterprise senior product line manager for SSDs, Seagate. It is safe to say that Seagate has not been the most forceful voice in pushing SSD technology. But then again, its go-slow approach just may be more in tune with market realities than many would care to admit. Now that the company has come out with a pair of enterprise-class versions, The Pulsar.2 and Pulsar XT.2, it will be interesting to see if a product designed as a low-cost solution for highly targeted — some would say limited — application and data environments will produce enough revenue to justify development costs. Seagate is betting that it will, as Vignes explains.

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Protect, Store, and GET MORE…with new Seagate BlackArmor® NAS firmware upgrade

By Aaron Merrill, posted November 18, 2010

This week Seagate is rolling out a free firmware upgrade for its BlackArmor® NAS line of products providing small businesses and prosumers around the world with additional functionality and flexibility to support their evolving digital needs. 

What’s new in this firmware upgrade?

  • Time Machine® software support (additional backup compatibility for Mac® computers)
  • iTunes® Server Version 10.x (compliant)
  • FTP over SSL/TLS (secure file sharing protocol service)
  • WiDMS 2.0 Media Server Upgrade (additional audio/video file formats supported)
  • 8 Additional Languages Supported (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Greek)

Who is eligible for this new firmware and how do I get a copy?

All current and future BlackArmor NAS product customers are eligible for this free firmware upgrade.  There are three ways the new firmware is being distributed:

  • Current BlackArmor® NAS customers will receive electronic upgrade notification with the option to automatically initiate their firmware upgrade.
  • Current BlackArmor® NAS customers can download the new firmware by clicking here. 
  • The firmware is included in new BlackArmor® NAS products (starting November 2010).

Added value for you and your business

BlackArmor® NAS users can start to benefit from the additional features in this new firmware today.  Over the next several days, keep an eye out for additional blog posts on Storage Means Business to learn more about the benefits of this new firmware.   

Is a BlackArmor NAS product right for you?

To learn more about how BlackArmor NAS products can benefit your small business or home office environment, click here.  Be sure to view the brief video on ‘What a NAS can do for you’.

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Seagate Ships Industry’s First 2TB 6Gb/s SAS Enterprise Drive

By Seagate Technology, posted February 22, 2010
Leading Storage Providers Optimize Their Platforms By Integrating Best-Of-Breed Constellation ES Hard Drive

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – February 22, 2010 – Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) is now shipping its 3.5-inch Constellation™ ES drive, the industry’s first 2TB enterprise-class drives featuring 6Gb SAS, to customers worldwide. Designed specifically for multi-drive nearline storage environments, the Constellation ES drive has been qualified by leading enterprise OEMs and system builders who demand storage solutions of the highest capacities with increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security that their customers demand. The Constellation ES drive leverages Seagate’s 30 years of leadership in meeting large enterprise customer needs in product development, qualification, and support.

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New study says Americans consume 1TB per month of information

By Seagate Technology, posted December 9, 2009

Seagate sponsored a study conducted by the University of California San Diego (UCSD) that shows how much data American consumers take in and the numbers are staggering. The study released today titled “HMI-How Much Information?”, gives us a detailed look into how Americans truly are information junkies, and sometimes don’t even realize it.

“This report is a snapshot of what the information revolution means to the average American on an average day, who consumes 34 gigabytes and 100,000 words of information,” said report author Roger Bohn, Director of the Global Information Industry Center at UC San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies.

34GB of information a day means, on average, Americans consume over 1TB of information a month, 12TB a year!  Of course, not all of the information is saved on hard drives. Wouldn’t that be nice.  In fact, very little is data in bytes consumed via everyday PC use (only .24%).   Most can be attributed to Gaming (54.62%), TV (34.77%) and Movies (9.78%). Everything else adds up to less than 1%! It makes sense, TV and Gaming are byte intensive mediums, meaning there is a ton of detail (information) crammed into the content stream.

The study also looks at time spent per day per medium and words consumed per medium. Here are some more fun findings about Americans obsession with information.

In 2008, American consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 1080 trillion words.
“If we printed 3.6 zettabytes of text in books, and stacked them as tightly as possible across the United States including Alaska, the pile would be 7 feet high.”
In 2008, the 3.6 zettabytes of information used by Americans in their homes during 2008 was roughly 20 times more than what could be stored at one time on all the hard drives in the world.

And it’s growing!  If we only saved everything.

Check it out – http://hmi.ucsd.edu/howmuchinfo.php

This blog post was written by Mark Wojtasiak, Global Segment Manager at Seagate Technology based at the Shakopee, MN design center. He currently writes for Seagate’s SMB Blog and manages Seagate’s SMB Twitter account (@seagate_smb).

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Seagate Introduces Its First Solid State Drive: Pulsar

By Seagate Technology, posted December 7, 2009

First true enterprise-class SSD from the world’s #1 enterprise storage supplier

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – December 7, 2009 – Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced the Seagate® Pulsar™ drive, the first product in its new enterprise solid state drive (SSD) family. Designed for enterprise blade and general server applications, the Pulsar drive uses single-level cell (SLC) technology, delivers up to 200GB capacity, and is built in a 2.5-inch small form factor with a SATA interface. The Pulsar drive leverages Seagate’s 30 years of leadership in meeting large enterprise customer needs in product development, qualification, and support.

“Seagate is optimistic about the enterprise SSD opportunity and views the product category as enabling expansion of the overall storage market for both SSDs and HDDs,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate executive vice president, Sales, Marketing, and Product Line Management. “Our strategy is to provide our customers with the exact storage device they need for any application, regardless of the component technology used. We are delivering on that strategy with the Pulsar™ drive, and you can expect additional products in the future from Seagate using a variety of solid state and rotating media components.”

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ChannelWeb: Seagate Brings Encrypted Drives To The Channel

By Seagate Technology, posted September 22, 2009

Seagate Tuesday expanded the market for its encrypted Savvio, Cheetah and Constellation hard drives by making them available to solution providers and system builders.The move to bring encrypted drives to the channel fulfills a promise Seagate made last April when it started shipping encrypted hard drives to OEMs and promised to eventually bring them to the channel .

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Seagate First To Ship Enterprise-Class Self-Encrypting Drives To VARs And System Builders Worldwide

By Seagate Technology, posted September 22, 2009
Seagate Secure™ HDDs Enable Instant, Automatic Data-at-rest Security for Servers and Storage Systems

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – September 22, 2009 -

Seagate's enterprise Self-Encrypting Drives (SED)
Seagate’s enterprise Self-Encrypting Drives (SED). Strong enough for national security… Simple enough for the one-man IT shop.

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today announced worldwide availability of the Seagate Secure™ Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option across its portfolio of enterprise-class hard drives. Products with the Seagate Secure option include: Savvio™ 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation™ and Cheetah™ 15K.7 drives.

These enterprise-class products are an extension of Seagate’s first-to-market leadership with Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) technology, designed to deliver data-at-rest security for servers and storage systems.

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Seagate Ships World’s Fastest Desktop Hard Drive; First Drive to Feature Serial ATA 6Gbit/Second Technology

By Seagate Technology, posted September 21, 2009
Seagate Teams With Technology Leaders to Bring SATA 6Gbit/s Complete Solutions to Market

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – September 21, 2009 -

Seagate Barracuda XT
Seagate Barracuda XT, the world’s fastest desktop hard drive featuring the blazing fast Serial ATA 6Gb/s interface.

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today began global shipments of the world’s fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive – Barracuda® XT, a 7200RPM product featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface. The 3.5-inch desktop drive, the industry’s first to feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface, meets the capacity demands of gaming, digital video-environments and other storage-hungry desktop computing applications while delivering the highest performance in its class.

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