Other than the 2.5-inch  Savvio 15K.3 and Savvio 10K.5, Seagate also introduces the new 3.5-inch Constellation ES.2 high capacity enterprise hard drive. The new packs up to 3TB storage capacity and provides the efficiencies demanded by capacity-intensive 24/7 applications. It includes the new Seagate RAID Rebuild feature for enterprise HDDs that reduces hours of lost productivity during RAID recoveries. It uses 3rd generation SAS interface and features the SAS-based Protection Information feature for end-to-end data protection, Self-Encrypted Drive (SED) option for protecting

Western Digital (WD) releases its 2.5-inch S25 and 3.5-inch RE SAS hard drives for enterprise applications. Both of them use SAS 6Gb/s interface. The WD S25 operates as 10,000 RPM and is available in capacities ranging from 147GB, 300GB, 450GB and 600GB. Available in 1TB and 2TB, the 3.5-inch RE SAS runs at 7200 RPM. The WD RE SAS features Enhanced Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) technology, which includes sophisticated electronics to monitor the drive and correct both linear and rotational vibration in real time resulting in improved performance and efficiency in

Hitachi announced the new Ultrastar C10K600, the industry’s fastest and most power-efficient, 10,000RPM, 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Enterprise hard drive. Designed for enterprise, the C10K600 comes with a dual-port 6Gb/s SAS interface and has 64MB cache memory for optimized read/write response time. The C10K600 comes in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB capacities. The Ultrastar C10K600 feature average seek times as low as 3.7 milliseconds and the fast rotational speeds reduce average latency time to 3.0 milliseconds. It includes Advanced Power Management capabilities. Hitachi will