Ultra 320 SCSI drives - the size of laptop drives

[Dave (from the UK)]

A mate of mine found a couple of Ultra 320 36 GB SCSI disks with SCA connectors
(80-pin). But unusually these are about the size of laptop drives (I have not
seen them myself) rather than the more common 1" thick ones. I gather they are
not much wider than the SCA connector.

Does anyone know what they might be used for? I believe they are IBM.
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[hrdtd]

Possibly for blade servers?

 

[Paul]

A mate of mine found a couple of Ultra 320 36 GB SCSI disks with SCA connectors
(80-pin). But unusually these are about the size of laptop drives (I have not
seen them myself) rather than the more common 1" thick ones. I gather they are
not much wider than the SCA connector.

Does anyone know what they might be used for? I believe they are IBM.

I remember seeing devices like this announced a while back.
This one is the Savvio 10K.1 from Seagate. It is a 2.5" disk
drive, 10K RPM, Ultra 320, 36GB or 73GB. These are pretty
expensive per GB of storage, and the real advantage comes
when building data centers. The power consumption is reduced
and is about 8W while the drive is busy. Does your drive
look like this ?

Picture:
http://www.beareyes.com.cn/2/lib/200501/28/010/savvio.JPG

Specs:
http://www.seagate.com/content/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_savvio.pdf

It could be that the IBM product is just something to match
the Seagate introduction.

Paul

 

[Dave (from the UK)]

I remember seeing devices like this announced a while back.
This one is the Savvio 10K.1 from Seagate. It is a 2.5" disk
drive, 10K RPM, Ultra 320, 36GB or 73GB. These are pretty
expensive per GB of storage, and the real advantage comes
when building data centers. The power consumption is reduced
and is about 8W while the drive is busy.

I was trying to think why anyone would use them, but you have a point there. I
could not imagine anyone using SCSI disks in a laptop. But although the power
might be low, you need a lot of them to get decent capacity.

Does your drive
look like this ?

Picture:
http://www.beareyes.com.cn/2/lib/200501/28/010/savvio.JPG

I've not seen them myself, but from what my friend said, the picture would seem
to be about right.

Specs:
http://www.seagate.com/content/pdf/datasheet/disc/ds_savvio.pdf
Cheers.

It could be that the IBM product is just something to match
the Seagate introduction.

Paul

Possibly.
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