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Boost drive performance. Double storage capacity.

Seagate® Savvio® 15K hard drives leverage a 2.5-inch form factor to deliver pronounced performance advantages and power savings over legacy 3.5-inch drives. 

The newest generation, Savvio 15K.3, offers:

  • Faster transaction processing to facilitate faster time-to-revenue
  • Double data storage capacity (up to 300 GB) over previous generation
  • Improved reliability by up to 20% with an annualized failure rate (AFR) of 0.44%
  • Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS 140-2 Validated™ SED security options1
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Step up to higher drive performance.

Savvio 15K.3 drives enable faster transaction processing by improving sequential performance 21% over the previous generation. Additionally, these drives deliver up to 10% faster random reads and up to 8% faster random writes vs. legacy 3.5-inch 15K drives.2

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Reduce storage system complexity and operating costs.

Savvio 15K drives minimize the number of technologies in use, thereby reducing IT complexity and operating expenses. By leveraging the Unified Storage architecture from Seagate , you can standardize on best-of-breed form factor, interface, and data security.

  • Efficient 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF)
  • High Performance 6Gb/s SAS interface
  • Self-Encrypting Drive1 data security options
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Storage reliability and data security you can trust.

Savvio 15K drives offer field-proven reliability essential in enterprise environments.

Savvio 15K drives also help protect data with features like:

  • SED models1 that help secure data against unauthorized access upon drive loss, theft and retirement
  • Protection Information (PI)3 technology to protect data integrity
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Savvio 15K.3 provides key performance advantages.

In addition to significant system-level performance improvements over legacy 3.5-inch drives, Savvio 15K.3 drives feature further enhancements over previous generations.

The Savvio 15K.3 drive goes beyond previous generations to offer:

  • Up to 21% improvement in sequential data read/write performance*
  • Up to 3% faster random reads and up to 4% faster random writes*
  • Double the storage capacity (up to 300GB)

 

*Actual improvement varies depending on queue depth and transfer size.

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Reduces storage system complexity and operating costs.

Savvio 15K drives leverage the Unified Storage architecture from Seagate to minimize the number of technologies in use, thereby reducing IT complexity and operating expenses.

Storage solutions based on Unified Storage architecture:

  • Use fewer components that can break or cause interoperability issues
  • Reduce design, qualification and support costs
  • Require fewer SKUs to be purchased, inventoried and tracked, reducing administrative effort and expense

Savvio 15K drives also offer these cost-saving advantages:

  • 2.5-inch small form factor(SFF)helps reduce power consumption up to 70% compared to 3.5-inch drives
  • PowerTrim™ technology dynamically maximizes energy efficiency at all levels of activity – reducing power and cooling costs
  • Self-Encrypting Drive* options reduce drive retirement costs

 

*Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS Validated drives are not available in all models or countries. May require TCG-compliant host or controller support. TM: A Certification Mark of NIST, which does not imply product endorsement by NIST, the U.S., or Canadian governments.

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Data security options.

Savvio 15K hard drives combine unsurpassed reliability with powerful Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and Protection Information (PI) options to help secure data.

SED options offered by Savvio 15K drives secure data-at-rest and can help customers comply with corporate and federal data security mandates. SED technology also eliminates the need to overwrite or physically destroy drives for security purposes. This enables organizations to securely return, repurpose or sell drives, thereby reducing drive retirement costs.

For strict regulatory data security compliance requirements, FIPS 140-2 Validated™ SED1 options are available. These models are NIST certified to secure Sensitive but Unclassified and Protected class data.

The PI2 technology ensures that data cannot be modified during the storage process.



1 Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS Validated drives are not available in all models or countries. May require TCG-compliant host or controller support. TM: A Certification Mark of NIST, which does not imply product endorsement by NIST, the U.S., or Canadian governments.

2Protection Information (PI) requires PI compliant host or controller support.

Specifications

 
Generation 15K.3 15K.2
Capacity 300GB 146GB 146.8GB
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Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface Options SAS 6Gb/s SAS 6Gb/s SAS 6Gb/s
Performance      
Spindle Speed (RPM) 15000 15000 15000
Cache (MB) 64 64 16
Transfer Rate, Max Ext (MB/s) 600 600 600
Sustained Data Rate OD 202MB/s 202MB/s 152MB/s
Average Latency (ms) 2.0 2.0 2.0
Reliability/Data Integrity      
Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 in 1016 1 in 1016 1 in 1016
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR) 0.44%, 0.44%% 0.44%, 0.44%% 0.55%
Power Management      
Idle, Typical Operating (W) 4.25 3.84 4.37, 4.01
Environmental      
Temperature      
Operating 5° to 55°C 5° to 55°C 5° to 55°C
Non-operating -40° to 70°C -40° to 70°C -40° to 70°C
Shock      
Operating: Gs (ms) 40 (2ms) 40 (2ms) 20 (2ms)
Non-operating: Gs (ms) 300 (2ms) 300 (2ms) 300 (2ms)
Acoustics (bels - sound power)      
Idle 3.25 3.25 3.25
Operating 3.35 3.35 3.35
Physical      
Height (in/mm) 0.591/15.00 0.591/15.00 0.591/15.00
Width (in/mm) 2.760/70.10 2.760/70.10 2.760/70.10
Length (in/mm) 3.955/100.45 3.955/100.45 3.955/100.45
Weight (lb/g) 0.441/200 0.426/193 0.444/201, 0.429/195
Model Number Generation Capacity Interface Spindle Speed (RPM) Cache (MB) Areal Density Encryption Maximum Operating Shock Maximum Length Maximum Width Maximum Height Typical Weight AFR Operating Temperature Average Operating Power
ST9300453SS 15K.3 300GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 64MB 448 Encryption/FIPS 40Gs       200g 0.44%% 55°C  
ST9300653SS 15K.3 300GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 64MB 448   40Gs       200g 0.44% 55°C  
ST9300553SS 15K.3 300GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 64MB 448 Encryption 40Gs       200g 0.44% 55°C  
ST9146653SS 15K.3 146GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 64MB 448 Encryption/FIPS 40Gs       193g 0.44%% 55°C  
ST9146753SS 15K.3 146GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 64MB 448 Encryption 40Gs       193g 0.44% 55°C  
ST9146853SS 15K.3 146GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 64MB 448   40Gs       193g 0.44% 55°C  
ST973452SS 15K.2 73.4GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 16MB 237.1   20Gs       195g 0.55% 55°C 6.62W
ST973252SS 15K.2 73.4GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 16MB 237.1 Encryption/FIPS 20Gs       195g 0.55% 55°C 6.62W
ST973352SS 15K.2 73.4GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 16MB 237.1 Encryption 20Gs       195g 0.55% 55°C 6.62W
ST9146752SS 15K.2 146.8GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 16MB 237.1 Encryption 20Gs       201g 0.55% 55°C 7.22W
ST9146852SS 15K.2 146.8GB SAS 6Gb/s 15000RPM 16MB 237.1   20Gs       201g 0.55% 55°C 7.22W