After a slight hiccup in product development, Seagate has officially unveiled its Pulsar line of solid state disks aimed squarely at the enterprise and, incidentally, prodigal consumers concerned with NAND reliability.
“Seagate is optimistic about the enterprise SSD opportunity and views the product category as enabling expansion of the overall storage market for both SSDs and HDDs. We are delivering on our strategy to provide our customers with the exact storage device they need for any application, regardless of the component technology used, with the Pulsar drive, and you can expect additional products in the future from Seagate using a variety of solid state and rotating media components” said Seagate EVP of Sales, Marketing and Product Line Management Dave Mosley.
Seagate’s Pulsar family of 2.5″ SSDs come in 50GB, 100GB and 200GB flavors boasting peak speeds of up to 240/220MBps read/write. The Pulsar line is also built exclusively using SLC NAND cells for a useful service life that can easily be measured in decades, not five to seven years as with the vast majority of consumer SSDs built with MLC technology. Seagate says that the Pulsar’s figures are sufficient to meet the performance and reliability needs of all classes of enterprise devices, including blades and general server work.
| Specifications | 200GB | 100GB | 50GB |
| Model Number | ST9200011FS | ST9100011FS | ST950011FS |
| Interface | SATA 3Gb/s (“SATA II”) | ||
| Max I/O Transfer Rate | 300MB/s | ||
| Peak IOPS Read/Write (4k) Sustained IOPS Read/Write (4k) |
30,000/25,000 30,000/10,500 |
30,000/25,000 30,000/5300 |
30,000/25,000 30,000/2600 |
| Product Application Class (JEDEC JC64.8) | Enterprise Standard | ||
| Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) | 0.44% | ||
| New Bit Error Rate EOL Bit Error Rate |
<1 sector per 1×10^17 <1 sector per 1×10^17 |
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| Features | SATA Rev 2.6, ATA/ATAPI-8, SMART, NCQ, ATA TRIM | ||
“To deliver and serve the enterprise SSD marketplace effectively, it is critical for suppliers to understand the needs of their storage system customers with respect to design, manufacturing, supply chain delivery, and support,” said Dave Reinsel, IDC group vice president. “With its well-established OEM and eco-system relationships and a long history of serving global storage OEMs, Seagate is in a unique position to fortify its leading enterprise storage position with its entry into the enterprise solid state storage market.”
Pricing data was not available at press time.
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