From the Manufacturer

Seagate® Savvio® 15K hard drives leverage a 2.5-inch form factor to deliver pronounced performance advantages and power savings over legacy 3.5-inch drives. 

The newest generation, Savvio 15K.3, offers:

• Faster transaction processing to facilitate faster time-to-revenue
• Double data storage capacity (up to 300 GB) over previous generation
• Improved reliability by up to 20% with an annualized failure rate (AFR) of 0.44%
• Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS 140-2 Validated™ SED security options

Savvio 15K.3 drives enable faster transaction processing by improving sequential performance 21% over the previous generation. Additionally, these drives deliver up to 10% faster random reads and up to 8% faster random writes vs. legacy 3.5-inch 15K drives.

Savvio 15K drives minimize the number of technologies in use, thereby reducing IT complexity and operating expenses. By leveraging the Unified Storage architecture from Seagate , you can standardize on best-of-breed form factor, interface, and data security.

• Efficient 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF)
• High Performance 6Gb/s SAS interface
• Self-Encrypting Drive data security options

Savvio 15K drives offer field-proven reliability essential in enterprise environments.

Savvio 15K drives also help protect data with features like:

• SED models that help secure data against unauthorized access upon drive loss, theft and retirement
• Protection Information (PI) technology to protect data integrity

In addition to significant system-level performance improvements over legacy 3.5-inch drives, Savvio 15K.3 drives feature further enhancements over previous generations.

The Savvio 15K.3 drive goes beyond previous generations to offer:

• Up to 21% improvement in sequential data read/write performance¹
• Up to 3% faster random reads and up to 4% faster random writes¹
• Double the storage capacity (up to 300GB)

Savvio 15K drives leverage the Unified Storage architecture from Seagate to minimize the number of technologies in use, thereby reducing IT complexity and operating expenses.

Storage solutions based on Unified Storage architecture:

• Use fewer components that can break or cause interoperability issues
• Reduce design, qualification and support costs
• Require fewer SKUs to be purchased, inventoried and tracked, reducing administrative effort and expense

Savvio 15K drives also offer these cost-saving advantages:

• 2.5-inch small form factor(SFF)helps reduce power consumption up to 70% compared to 3.5-inch drives
• PowerTrim™ technology dynamically maximizes energy efficiency at all levels of activity – reducing power and cooling costs
• Self-Encrypting Drive² options reduce drive retirement costs

Savvio 15K hard drives combine unsurpassed reliability with powerful Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and Protection Information (PI) options to help secure data.

SED options offered by Savvio 15K drives secure data-at-rest and can help customers comply with corporate and federal data security mandates. SED technology also eliminates the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives for security purposes. This enables organizations to securely return, repurpose or sell drives, thereby reducing drive retirement costs.

For strict regulatory data security compliance requirements, FIPS 140-2 Validated™ SED² options are available. These models are NIST certified to secure Sensitive but Unclassified and Protected class data.

The PI³ technology ensures that data cannot be modified during the storage process.