Seagate has introduced its first 2.5" Savvio 15,000 RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives, which it claims to be the world's fastest hard drives, according to Tom's hardware Guide. 2.5" hard drives for servers are not only 70% smaller, but allow for improved airflow as well as more hard drives to be installed in a given space. Seagate's 2.5" series also consume 25% less power than its 3.5" equivalent versions and the new 2.5" models feature a 10% faster seek time and an improved Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) of 1.6 million hours
With the growing demand for 2.5" drives for servers and enterprises, Seagate expects sales of 3.5" enterprise drives to fall from 23 million sales in 2006 to just 15 million sales in 2007 with 2.5" drives increasing from 4 million sales in 2006 to 14 million sales in 2007. They expect this change to continue to the point where there will be about 25 million 2.5" hard drive sales and under 10 million 3.5" in sold during 2009.
The 2.5" Savvio hard drives will be available in capacities of 36GB and 73GB and are use Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology. So far no pricing has been anounced for its new Savvio 15k models.
