From the ManufacturerFor enterprise external storage OEMs and system designers who want to transition to 2.5-inch drives, the Seagate® Savvio® 10K drive is the first 600GB, 2M-hour MTBF, 10K-RPM drive that enables widespread enterprise market adoption of SFF for external storage solutions. Unlike other 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives, this fourth generation drive delivers high capacity (low $/GB), high reliability and energy efficiency to enable widespread adoption of 2.5-inch based NAS, SAN and DAS solutions. The PowerChoice™ feature allows IT organizations to tailor systems for performance and power consumption. Optimizing ROI, the drive offers Protection Information (PI) and Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options for improved data integrity and data-at-rest security.Seagate® Savvio® 10K Hard Drives What the experts are saying... The industry-leading high capacity 2.5-inch 10,000-RPM drive Seagate® Savvio® 10K 2.5-inch drives deliver unmatched reliability, a low cost-per-gigabyte and the lowest power profile of any mission-critical Tier 1, enterprise drives. That makes them the perfect drives for mainstream enterprise environments that require high capacity, performance and lower power consumption, including: Mainstream enterprise servers and external storage arrays Database transaction processing Power- and space-constrained data centers Drive life extension and drive retirement simplification strategies1 “…this is the first time we saw such capacity and speed at this small form factor size, and overall the Seagate Savvio 10K.4 600GB 2.5" 10,000RPM 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI hard drives deserve a 9 out of 10 points and Bjorn3D's Golden Bear Award!” - Bjorn3D, April 2010 Why Choose the Seagate Savvio 10K? World's highest-capacity 2.5-inch 10K-RPM drive (up to 600GB) Delivers 20 percent higher reliability than any other drive available as the industry's first 2M-hour MTBF2 drive to provide a 0.44 percent annualized failure rate (AFR) Includes second-generation 6Gb/s SAS with dual-port communication and is the first SFF hard drive with 4Gb/s FC support Reduces end-user cooling and energy costs with SFF and low power consumption Features PowerChoice™ technology for T10-compliant power management, empowering IT organizations to tailor systems for performance and power consumption Detects corruption of data in flight between the host system and the drive with the Protection Information (PI) option3 Improves device handling reliability with the head ramp load/unload feature TCG-compliant, Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) security option (SAS models only) eliminates the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives, enables safe return of drives for warranty or expired lease purposes and allows organizations to securely repurpose or sell hard drives (not available in all countries)1 1 Self-Encrypting models require TCG-compliant host or controller support2 Mean time between failures3 Requires PI compliant host or controller support“Our customers face challenging storage needs requiring the most efficient use of space and power while maintaining the highest performance possibleThe new 2.5-inch 10K-rpm 600GB capacity point allows a doubling of capacity within the same rack space of current 3.5-inch 15K 600GB drives while increasing overall system-level performance and decreasing power usage.” - Howard Shoobe, senior manager, Dell Storage Product ManagementSeagate® Enterprise Family Hard DrivesSeagate®Constellation™Enterprise-class2.5-inch 7200 RPMnearline driveclick here Seagate®Constellation™ ESEnterprise-class3.5-inch7200 RPM driveclick here Seagate®Savvio® 10KEnterprise-class2.5-inch 10,000-RPM drive Seagate®Savvio® 15kEnterprise-class2.5-inch 15,000-RPM driveclick here Seagate®Cheetah® 15kEnterprise-class3.5-inch 15,000-RPM driveclick hereSavvio 10K Drive Specifications Specifications 600 GB1 450 GB1 300 GB1 146 GB1 Model Number ST9600104SS2ST9600204SSST9600204FC3 ST9450304SS2ST9450404SSST945040