Stores twice the amount of Tier 1 data without increasing the total number of drives
Enables Tier 1 applications to process more transactions within a given time period to help increase revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction and complete critical business processes faster
Supports 6 Gb/s SAS for more robust topologies and higher reliability 20% improved annualized failure rate (0.44% AFR) with third-generation, field-proven reliability
Provides up to 21% improvement in sequential data read-write performance over prior generation
Delivers up to 3% faster random read and up to 4% faster random write performance vs. prior generation; up to 10% faster random read and up to 8% faster random write performance vs. legacy 3.5-inch, 15K drives
Helps protect data from corruption during the storage process and from exposure should the device be lost, stolen or retired
Reduces system complexity and data center operating costs