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The Seagate® Savvio® 10K.5 drive provides the optimal balance of high capacity (up to 900 GB), performance and low power in a 2.5-inch enterprise drive. These hard drives are ideal for use in enterprise storage arrays and servers.

The Savvio 10K.5 hard drive enables OEMs, system builders and data centers to:

• Improve data storage efficiency, reduce cooling and energy costs
• Ease capacity, interface and form factor transitions
• Optimize small form factor (SFF) drives with four capacity points on a single platform
• Ensure data integrity and protection with Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS 140-2 Validated™ SED security options

The high capacities of Savvio 10K drives enable users to manage more data without increasing the number of drives. These drives also increase sustained data rate performance while maintaining favorable power consumption rates.

The latest Savvio 10K.5 drives deliver:

• 50% increase in capacity over previous generation
• 18% increase in sustained data rate performance over previous generation
• Reduced cooling and energy costs

Savvio 10K drives help reduce system complexity by enabling data centers to standardize on a single small form factor, SAS storage interface and encryption technology.

The latest generation drive, Savvio 10K.5, offers flexibility during capacity, interface and form factor upgrades. With four capacity points on the same platform and four Gb/S Fibre Channel interface support, these drives enable current and next generation systems for optimal return on investment.

Savvio 10K drives offer a range of options to maximize data integrity and security. Protection Information (PI) detects corruption of data in flight between the host and the drive, while SED models help secure data against unauthorized access upon drive loss, theft or retirement.

For more stringent regulatory compliance needs, Savvio 10K SED drives are also available in FIPS 140-2 Validated™ SED models.

Savvio 10K drives combine low power consumption, single form factor SFF and Seagate® PowerChoice™ technology to deliver optimal energy efficiency and increase user flexibility.

Purpose-built for enterprise environments, the PowerChoice feature for T10-compliant power management enables green IT initiatives by empowering end users to tailor systems for optimal performance and energy usage.

Savvio 10K hard drives offer OEMs and data center managers easy flexibility when upgrading and transitioning data storage systems. These enterprise drives help simplify support of current systems and optimize returns on investment.

With four capacity points on a single platform, Savvio 10K.5 drives make it simple to:

• Maintain or upgrade capacity
• Transition from 3.5-inch to 2.5-inch form factors
• Migrate from Fibre Channel to SAS at your convenience

In short, Savvio 10K.5 drives can help simplify support of current systems and optimize returns on investments.

Savvio10K drives support Protection Information (PI)¹ technology, which can help to preserve the integrity of data-in-flight. Additionally, these drives offer Self-Encrypting Drive (SED)² options that help secure data-at-rest throughout the life of the device.

• SED models with Seagate® Instant Secure Erase technology cut IT drive retirement costs while securely protecting data where it lives – on the drive
• Meets regulatory data security compliance requirements and is FIPS 140-2 Validated™ to protect Sensitive but Unclassified and Protected class data
• Seagate SED technology also eliminates the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives for security purposes. This enables organizations to securely return, repurpose or sell the drive, thereby reducing drive retirement costs.