Computer Reseller News’ Senior Editor – Storage, Server, Data Center, Joe Kovar recently featured ‘Highlights From The Flash Memory Summit Conference‘. Among his picks was the recently announced Seagate 1200.2 Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Solid State Drive (SSD).
In Joe’s words:
“The annual Flash Memory Summit, held earlier this month, was an opportunity to see and understand the flash storage trends that will impact storage performance in data centers for years to come.
The conference was also an opportunity for storage vendors to show off the latest hardware and software components, as well as new all-flash arrays and other new technology, that are helping flash storage accelerate a wide range of customer workloads and rapidly become accepted as a mainstream storage medium.
Didn’t get to Santa Clara, Calif., to attend the event? Missed some of the vendors? You are in luck. Turn the page and join CRN for a look at some of the 15 new products and solutions from vendors large and small.”
The Seagate 1200.2 SAS SSD, the first product to result from a strategic alliance between Seagate and Micron Technology, Inc., announced in February 2015 is engineered for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system builder partners who design and build scalable, modular storage solutions for enterprise applications. It’s also available to enterprise end users who want to directly upgrade and expand their existing SAS storage infrastructure and investment. For enterprise and cloud customers with critical production systems requiring high data availability, the drive delivers the data integrity required in the event of an unexpected power loss. The Seagate 1200.2 SAS SSD provides superior data protection and reliability that protects data from undetected, unintentional corruption and prevents unauthorized access to the drive and stored data with three levels of security.
The framework established between Seagate and Micron has led to the development and production of this next-generation, high-capacity SAS SSD platform. It is the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gb/s) SAS device to optimize dual channel throughput with up to 1800 megabytes-per-second (MB/s) sequential reads and offer multiple endurance choices within a single hardware and firmware design. These advantages engineered for the 1200.2 SAS SSD ensure it will deliver ultra-fast performance to match the needs of specific enterprise applications and workloads.
Additional features of the 1200.2 SAS SSD include…
- Industry-leading storage density range including 4TB-class capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor
- Dual-port SAS interface configurable to provide up to 1800 MB/s sequential read performance or high data availability with failover redundancy and no single point of failure.
- Next generation Power Loss Protection (PLP) maintains high data integrity to prevent loss of user data in flight in the event of unexpected power interruptions.
- Superior data protection and reliability, achieved by combining full internal and external data path protection and multi-layered error recovery technology with advanced error detection/correction encoding optimized for NAND media.
- Three levels of security including secure diagnostics and download (SD&D), Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and FIPS drive.
To learn more about Seagate’s family of SAS SSDs visit the Seagate website.
