Western Digital introduces its first SAS server hard drive

The 2.5-inch model S25 is working with 10,000 U / min and 16 MB cache hp pavilion dv4t battery. It comes with either 3 - or 6-GBit/s-SAS-Schnittstelle. The storage capacity is, depending on the model 147 or 300 GB.

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The S25 is Western Digital’s first SAS server hard drive (image: hp pavilion dv5 battery).

Western Digital offers the S25 for the first time a server’s hard drive with SAS interface. The interface operates according to the model with up to 3 or 6 Gb / s. The storage capacity is between 147 GByte (WD1460BKFG) and 300 GB (WD3000BKFG).

The 2.5-inch drive is working with 10,000 U / min and a 16-Mbyte cache. The Write Seek Time is the producer with an average of 3.6 milliseconds to 4.2 milliseconds Schreibsuchzeit. The track-to-track seek time should be at 0.7 milliseconds.

The WD that reached New Release on 6-GBit/s-SAS-Schnittstelle a permanent transfer of 128 Mbytes / s. The lenovo thinkpad x200 battery noise level at 27 decibels at idle and in search mode at 34 decibels. The average consumption of the drive ranges of 5.18 watts in idle mode, up to 7.35 watts during write and read operation.

The mean operating time between failures (Mean Time Between Failures, MTBF) is 1.6 million hours. The server’s hard drive to withstand shocks of up to 65 Gs of operating and 300 Gs of sleep.

WD delivers the S25 is currently out of OEM manufacturers sharp bt-h21 battery. With it wants the producers in the enterprise sector to competitors such as Hitachi, Toshiba and Seagate open, which have long been SAS hard drives in the portfolio.