On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@sun.com> wrote:
> A poster in another forum mentioned that Seagate (and Hitachi, amongst > others) is now selling something labeled as "NearLine SAS" storage (e.g. > Seagate's NL35 series). > > Is it me, or does this look like nothing more than their standard 7200-rpm > enterprise drives with a SAS or FC interface instead of a SATA one? > > I can't see any real advantage of those over the existing enterprise SATA > drives (e.g. Seagate's Constellation ES series), other than not needing a > FC/SAS->SATA gateway in the external drive enclosure. > > > Seagate claims the SAS versions of their drives actually see IOPS improvements: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/barracuda_es/barracuda_es.2 If the SAS version is dual ported like I would expect, that's also a MAJOR benefit. -- --Tim
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