Seagate Technology(NASDAQ:STX) has announced it is shipping the Seagate Enterprise Turbo SSHD. The enterprise solid-state hybrid drive (SSHD), the Enterprise Turbo SSHD combines the capacity of a hard drive with solid-state flash enabling high-speed performance for mission-critical data.
The Enterprise Turbo SSHD provides up to a 3X increase in random performance over existing 15K-RPM drives and is available with up to 600GB of capacity. By unifying the best of solid-state and magnetic technologies, Turbo improves tiered storage performance combining accelerated speed with hard disk drive (HDD) high-capacity.
"Typically, the most demanding mission-critical applications for 15K drives have improved performance by compromising on capacity and cost per GB. With the Enterprise Turbo SSHD, we deliver a no-compromise drive that provides high-speed performance while enabling customers to leverage all of Turbo’s capacity. The result, a combination of performance and capacity that we believe represents a new paradigm shift for mission-critical, enterprise storage - a real gamechanger in storage solutions now and for generations to come," said Rocky Pimentel, Seagate Executive Vice-President & Chief Sales and Marketing Officer.
Based on preliminary performance testing using standard system benchmarking tools, a 10K-RPM version of enterprise SSHD boasts IOPS over 2X better than a standard 600GB 10K-RPM hard disk drive. The end-result is much improved and more cost-effective performance for servers running mission-critical applications such as big data analytics, virtual desktop infrastructure, and database and transaction processing.