SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—10 January 2006— Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX)
today announced the availability of its latest NL35 Series SATA disc
drives to the worldwide distribution channel. With a half-terabyte
(500GBs) of capacity, the latest NL35 Series SATA disc drive provides
the bulk storage necessary for cost-effective nearline RAID storage in
the enterprise. The NL35 Series SATA drives are optimized for tasks
such as data management, backup/recovery and fixed content storage.
"Seagate is seeing that the opportunities for the nearline business are
moving into a cycle of high demand, a trend that IDC also recently
affirmed when they stated the market for high-capacity, low-cost
storage was primed for significant growth," said Sherman Black, Seagate
senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Storage. "As a
result, the timing for entry of our NL35 Series product - and
especially our new 500GB model - couldn't be better. Nearline is moving
from a small niche segment to what's becoming an explosive growth
opportunity in the enterprise line."
NL35 Series SATA - Nearline Ready
Seagate NL35 Series SATA disc drives are unique in the enterprise
world, providing the reliability and integration benefits needed for
nearline RAID applications like disc-to-disc backup, archive, and
tiered storage.
These features include: Workload Management, Error Recovery Control,
One-Step Microcode Download, and Write-Same technology. They work
together to perform a range of tasks from monitoring and managing each
drive for reliability optimization, to streamlining error recovery, to
simplifying multi-drive field upgrades, and more. Seagate understands
the importance of workload, reliability, and integration ease for
serving the needs of modern IT professionals.
About the NL35 Nearline Family
With both Fibre Channel and SATA interfaces, Seagate's RAID-friendly
NL35 Series family is uniquely positioned to serve in the nearline and
secondary storage space for Serial ATA (SATA), Serial Attached SCSI
(SAS) and Fibre Channel-based enterprise infrastructures. The NL35
Series Fibre Channel drive is optimized for use within networked Fibre
Channel enterprise systems, while the NL35 Series SATA is the ideal
solution for seamless integration within direct-attached environments
using SATA or SAS. Only Seagate has fully addressed the varied and
unique demands of both of these spaces and has the industry's broadest
product line of disc drives for the enterprise.
The NL35 Series SATA is a solid nearline-ready drive that enables
enterprises to meet their storage performance and capacity requirements
by allowing the combination of SAS and SATA drives together within the
same SAS infrastructure. Hundreds or thousands of NL35 Series SATA
drives can be deployed and managed within a single SAS domain, enabling
highly scalable, cost-effective storage solutions for
capacity-intensive nearline applications. The applications for nearline
storage include: disc to disc backup/storage recovery, virtual tape
backup/storage recovery, fixed content-addressed storage for image and
document management, and lower-tiered storage of regulatory compliance
or other business data. Seagate's NL35 Series facilitates faster, more
reliable backup/recovery for systems at lower overall cost versus
traditional tape systems.
NL35 Series SATA Details
With 250GB, 400GB, and now 500GB capacities, the NL35 Series SATA disc
drive delivers increased storage capacity density and lowers the
cost-per-gigabyte for nearline and secondary storage applications.
Using the industry's most rigorous nearline MTBF test-bed script and
applications, Seagate's NL35 Series SATA meets the rigorous
requirements of nearline workloads. The NL35 Series SATA drives also
includes other advanced features such as 16 MB cache, and Native
Command Queuing (NCQ). NL35 Series SATA drives at 500GBs also are
offered with a 3.0Gb/sec SATA inferface.
NL35 Series and the Tiered Storage Knowledge Center
Seagate's Tiered Storage Knowledge Center delivers expert advice on the
best way to optimize storage infrastructures. With the cost, complexity
and variety of storage on the rise, it's getting more difficult to
design a storage model that can satisfy all the necessary storage
requirements. Using the correct tiered storage solution can make all
the difference. Seagate NL35 Series SATA and Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 SAS
disc drives are an ideal combination for tiered storage.
Source: Seagate Press Release
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