Seagate launches 2.5" storage drive

Seagate Technology LLC launched a family of SFF (small form factor) 2.5" enterprise disc drives on Monday, and said Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is likely to be first to market with products using the new Savvio drives. "The higher IOPS (input/output per second) rate of the smaller drive means that a 2U rack storage array using the new Savvio 2.5" drives will outperform a standard 3U rack by almost 140 percent, on an IOPS-per-U basis, while giving similar storage capacity, Shawn Hook, Seagate senior marketing manager, said Monday."

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