Product Overview
Constellation
TM
First 2.5-inch nearline drive boasts the industry’s
lowest power usage for the enterprise.
Key Features and Benefits
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Lowest operating power and enhanced power options with
PowerChoice™ technology for even greater power savings during
slow or idle periods
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First 2.5-inch, 15-mm business-critical drive on the market
designed for enterprise reliability, vibration performance and high
data integrity
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Fastest Tier 2/nearline hard drive on the market (SAS 6 Gb/s).
At a system level (with more drives) the performance is >2x over
3.5-inch drives.
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The highest-capacity 2.5-inch enterprise drive (500 GB) with both
SAS and SATA interfaces (160-GB SATA also available for boot/
entry server applications)
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6-Gb/s SAS 2.0 allows for easier integration, enhanced features
and outstanding performance.
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Government-grade Self-Encrypting Drive security available on
SAS models
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Best-performing nearline drive with best-in-class rotational
vibration tolerance
Key Applications
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High-density nearline storage—Internet infrastructure, backup
and restore, medical imaging, nearline storage, disaster recovery,
check imaging, video editing
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Blade servers—computation, scientific applications, server
appliance, Web content
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Rack servers—graphics, security, firewalls, email
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Network routers
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Video surveillance
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24x7 availability—kiosks, ATMs, video lottery terminals, video
servers, high-reliability government/military
Constellation
TM
First 2.5-inch nearline drive boasts the industry’s
lowest power usage for the enterprise.
The Seagate Advantage
®
The Seagate
Constellation™ drive is the first 2.5inch hard drive for Tier 2/nearline environments.
It offers the best combination of power efficiency,
nearline performance, enterprise-class reliability,
capacity and data security. It delivers on
the Seagate Unified Storage™ architecture,
converging disparate disk drive interfaces, diverse
form factors and data security towards ONE bestof-breed foundation for robust yet simple storage
solutions.
The drive offers the lowest power consumption
of any enterprise drive on the market, provides
the highest capacity for a 2.5-inch hard drive at
500 GB for integrators and OEMs offering ecofriendly nearline server and storage solutions, and
enables OEMs and system designers to sell more
systems—especially into space-constrained IT
environments.
Specifications
Capacities (GB) 500 SA S and SATA; 160 (S ATA only)
Inter face SAS, SATA
Spindle speed (RPM ) 7200
Power ( SAS) 2.8 W ty pical idle, 3.8 W o perating
The Constellation drive extends the industry’s
best 2.5-inch field-proven reliability into a
high-capacity nearline drive based on Seagate
enterprise experience. This nearline drive offers
an MTBF of 1.2 million hours for economical,
enterprise-grade reliability.
The Constellation drive’s implementation of 6-Gb/
s SAS 2.0 improves scalability, which makes this
drive ideally suited for use in high-end network
storage solutions. It is the industry’s first 2.5inch nearline drive to implement the new SAS 2.0
feature set and is the world’s first nearline drive to
operate at 6-Gb/s transfer rates.
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tradem arks are t he proper ty of their re spective owners. W hen refer ring to hard dri ve capacit y, one gig abyte, or GB, equal s one billi on bytes and one terabyte, or TB , equals o ne trillio n bytes. Your compu ter’s operating sy stem may use
a diffe rent standar d of meas urement a nd report a lower capa city. In additio n, some of the listed cap acity is used for form atting a nd other f unctions, and thus will not b e availabl e for dat a storage. Seagate rese rves the right to change ,
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