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Itty Bitty SCSI Hard Drive Arrives

Posted by michael on from the little-silver-different dept.

Bender writes "The Tech Report has a review of the new Seagate Savvio hard drive. This little SCSI drive is roughly one-third the size of the Cheetah 10K-RPM drives so popular for servers, but the benchmarks all show it performing about the same. Not only that, but noise levels and power consumption are both lower than 3.5" SCSI drives. Is it time for 1U servers to convert to 2.5" hard drives?"

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  1. It has to be said.... by thewiz · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Phenomenal H4x0r powers; itty bitty living space!"

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  2. OMG Smaller Hard Disks? by Exmet+Paff+Daxx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shocking.

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  3. Dr. Evil by kettleoffish · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I shall call it... MINI-SCSI!

  4. 160 years MTBF by kclittle · · Score: 5, Funny
    1.4e6/(24*365.24) = 159.71 years, to be picky about it. I see these figures on modern drives and, frankly, I don't believe it. But, that doesn't keep me from drooling over them (which would proably shorten the MTBF, yes? :-)

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  5. As An Engineer Who Has... by John_Booty · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...worked in the industry for a long time, let me just give my technical impression on these 2.5" drives.

    THEY'RE SO CUTE I WANT ONE

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  6. teeny by jav1231 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Must have the PreSCSIous!

  7. government pricing by magarity · · Score: 4, Funny

    We get good government discounts so we paid about 50% more on each 146GB 10K drive

    Typical...

    1. Re:government pricing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      the parent was Fox News. They don't need the facts.

  8. Re:My only problem.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    My only problem with this is that SCSI disks are far too expensive for me. I'd like to have one in my desktop, but it won't happen any time soon. I'll stick with SATA for now.

    Don't worry, the manufacturers have a plan for this problem. They've decided to market enterprise class hardware to people that can afford it.

  9. Re:1U Servers To 2.5" Drives by zakezuke · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait a second... why would you want a more rugged casing on a drive that's in a machine bolted to a rack in a machine room somewhere than you do in a machine you're walking around with all day? Isn't that a bit counterintuitive?

    Why?

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