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Overview

Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) provides a superior storage solution. With some storage requirements escalating and others becoming more complex, factors such as flexibility, performance, increased reliability, greater density, security, scalability and accessibility are more critical than ever. Today's organizations consist of different kinds of environments. Enterprise data centers must be online almost 24X7, fulfill requests from numerous users simultaneously, and allow for constant growth and expansion while in operation. Other customer environments require high capacity storage and high data availability for low I/O environments. HP's portfolio of SAS drives meets all these demands.

What's new

HP introduces the first 3.5 inch drives in the portfolio with the 6Gb/s SAS interface. With 6Gb/s SAS components in the storage subsystem, system bandwidth is double that of traditional 3Gb/s SAS systems. This higher throughput means fewer I/O bottlenecks for storage-intensive environments such as video streaming, virtualization, and backups.
  • HP 300GB 6G SAS 15K LFF (3.5inch) DP ENT HDD
  • HP 450GB 6G SAS 15K LFF (3.5inch) DP ENT HDD
  • HP 600GB 6G SAS 15K LFF (3.5inch) DP ENT HDD

Ideal environment

Ideal for...

SAS Midline hard drives are ideal for servers or external storage for high-capacity, non mission-critical environments with less than 40% workloads requiring economical reliability (about twice that of Entry Drives) and redundant data paths to the drive, e.g. disk backup, archival, reference, and other highly available applications.

SAS Enterprise hard drives are ideal for servers and external storage running mission-critical, high I/O workloads applications requiring maximum reliability (about 3.5 times that of Entry Drives) and performance, e.g. high transaction applications such as email, ERP, and CRM.

Model comparison

  15K RPM 3.5" SAS Enterprise HDD 15K RPM 2.5" SAS Enterprise HDD 10K RPM 2.5" SAS Enterprise HDD 7.2K RPM 3.5" SAS Midline HDD
Capacity 600 GB, 450 GB, 300 GB, 146GB
146GB, 72GB 300GB, 146GB, 72GB 7.2K RPM 2.5"/3.5" SAS Midline HDD
Ports Dual Dual Dual Dual
Height 1.04 in (25.4 mm) 0.63 in (15.00 mm) 0.63 in (16.00 mm) 2.5": 0.63 in (16.00 mm)
3.5": 1.04 in (26.4 mm)
Width 4.36 in (110.7 mm) 3.1 in (78.7 mm) 3.1 in (78.7 mm) 2.5": 3.1 in (78.7 mm)
3.5": 4.36 in (110.7 mm)
Depth 7.43 in (188.74 mm) 5.45 in (138.4 mm) 5.45 in (138.4 mm) 2.5": 5.45 in (138.4 mm)
3.5": 7.43 in (188.74 mm)
Interface 3Gb/s SAS 3Gb/s SAS
(all capacities) and 6Gb/s SAS (146/72GB)
3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SAS
Seek Time (average) 3.5 ms 3.0ms 4.0ms 2.5": 8.2ms
3.5": 7.4 ms
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