
Savvio® 15K.2
Highest-performing, greenest drive
for enterprise storage systems
AMERICAS Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066, United States, 831-438-6550
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Allothertrademarksorregisteredtrademarksarethepropertyoftheirrespectiveowners.Whenreferringtoharddrivecapacity,onegigabyte,orGB,equalsonebillionbytesandoneterabyte,orTB,equalsone
trillionbytes.Yourcomputer’soperatingsystemmayuseadifferentstandardofmeasurementandreportalowercapacity.Inaddition,someofthelistedcapacityisusedforformattingandotherfunctions,and
thuswillnotbeavailablefordatastorage.Seagatereservestherighttochange,withoutnotice,productofferingsorspecications.DS1665.2-0906US,June2009
The Innovative Market Enabler
TheSavvio15K.2driveenablesOEMsandsystemdesignersto
increaserevenuebybuildingmorecompellingsolutions.Itprovides
thehighestperformanceforTier-1mission-criticalstoragesolutions:
• 115percentimprovementinsystem-levelperformanceover
3.5-inch15Kdrives
• 10percentfasterthan3.5-inch15Kdrives
• 30percentfasterthan2.5-inch10Kdrives
TheSavvio15K.2driveistheinnovativemarketenablerforhigh-
performance,low-power(green)solutions.Its2.5-inchformfactor
enablesOEMsandsystemdesignerstosellmoresystems—especially
intospace-constrainedITenvironments.
Enabling More Powerful Solutions
Thedrive’simplementationof6-Gb/sSASimprovesscalability,which
makesitideallysuitedforuseinhigh-endnetworkstoragesolutions.
TheSAS2.0featuresetsupportsmorerobusttopologiesthatcan
communicateoverbroaderdistanceswithhighsignalintegrityto
enablemorepowerfulstoragesolutions.
TheSavvio15K.2driveistheindustry’sonly2.5-inch15KSelf-
EncryptingDrive(SED)toprovidegovernment-gradedatasecurity.*
TheSavviolinehastheindustry’shighesteld-provenreliability.
Unied Storage Architecture
ByusingSFFdrives,acommonSASinterfaceandSEDsecurity*
capabilities,SeagateUniedStoragearchitecturedeliversabest-of-
breedfoundationforpowerfulyetsimplestoragesolutions
forthedatacenter.What’smore,theUniedStoragearchitecture:
• Enablessuperiormulti-driveserversandstoragesolutionsthat
reducecostsanddesigncomplexityforOEMsandothersystem
builders
• LowersTCOwhileimprovingROIbyprovidinglargeenterprises
andSMBslower-costmulti-driveserversandstorage
• Reducesstoragecomplexityandenablespeaceofmindforthe
ITmanager
*RequiresTCG-complianthostorcontrollersupport
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Specifications 146 GB173 GB1
Model Number ST9146852SS
ST9146752SS2
ST973452SS
ST973352SS2
Capacity
Formatted 512 Kbytes/Sector (GB) 146.8 73.4
External Transfer Rate (MB/s)
3-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI
6-Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI
300
600
300
600
Performance
Spindle Speed (RPM) 15K 15K
Average Latency (ms) 2.0 2.0
Seek Time
Average Read/Write (ms)
Track-to-Track Read/Write (ms)
2.9/3.3
2.9/3.3
0.2/0.4 0.2/0.4
Sustained Transfer Rate,
Outer to Inner Diameter (MB/s)
160 to 122
160 to 122
Cache, Multisegmented (MB) 16 16
Configuration/Reliability
Disks 2 1
Heads 4 2
Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 sector per 10E16 1 sector per 10E16
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.55% 0.55%
Power Management
Typical Op (amps) +12V/+5V 0.40/0.43 0.34/0.42
Power Idle (W) 4.1 3.7
Environmental
Temperature, Operating (°C) 5 to 55 5 to 55
Temperature, Nonoperating (°C) –40 to 70 –40 to 70
Shock, Operating: 2 ms (Gs) 60 60
Shock, Nonoperating: 2 ms (Gs) 300 300
Acoustics Idle (bels—sound power) 3.3 3.3
Vibration, Operating: <400 Hz (Gs) 0.5 0.5
Vibration, Nonoperating: <500 Hz (Gs) 2.4 2.4
Physical
Height (in/mm) 0.583/14.8 0.583/14.8
Width (in/mm) 2.76/70 2.76/70
Depth (in/mm) 3.957/100.5 3.957/100.5
Weight (lb/kg) 0.44/0.201 0.43/ 0.195
1 One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard
drive capacity.
2 Self-Encrypting Drive model; requires TCG-compliant host or controller support