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Barracuda® ES Hard Drive Family
Seagate® Barracuda® ES and ES.2 enterprise drives deliver superior performance, reliability and capacity for all your enterprise nearline applications
Seagate® Barracuda® ES and Barracuda ES.2 enterprise drives deliver superior performance, reliability and capacity for all your enterprise Tier 2 nearline applications. Enabled with Seagate PowerTrim™ technology, Barracuda ES.2 drives provide the best power-to-storage efficiency and the lowest draw on power when the drives are in an idle state.
Barracuda ES and Barracuda ES.2 enterprise drives are designed for RAID and Tier 2 nearline applications where high capacity, high reliability, low power consumption and tolerance to rotational vibration (RV) are primary requirements.
Barracuda ES and Barracuda ES.2 drives are available with a SATA interface. The Barracuda ES.2 drive also comes with an optional dual-ported SAS interface for 100 percent full duplex and multi-initiator compatibility with a mission-critical SAS host.
Key Features and Benefits
- Capacities from 250 GB to 1 TB
- Perpendicular recording technology
- Highest power efficiency for Tier 2 storage applications at 125 GB/watt and only 8 watts of power (idle) per drive.
- Superior data Integrity with SAS over SATA
- RoHS compliant
- SATA interface (SAS available on Barracuda ES.2 drive)
- High broadband RV tolerance for multi-drive environments
- 10x improvement in unrecoverable error rate compared to desktop product
- 5-year limited warranty
The Seagate® Barracuda® ES enterprise hard drive is the industry’s most reliable, highest-capacity 7200-RPM hard drive for 24 x 7, multidrive, business-critical applications.
Good For
External storage environments (NAS, SAN or RAID systems) where multiple drives are often deployed.
The Seagate® Barracuda® ES.2 drive comes with a SAS or SATA interface and provides high-capacity, 7200-RPM nearline storage for situations where dollars per GB and GB per watt are primary metrics.
Good For
Multi-spindle high-capacity applications such as nearline, NAS, SAN, RAID, multi-host applications (SAS) and, clustering (SAS)
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Useful Links
- SAS and SATA: Multiple Benefits of Unified Storage (334K, PDF)
- SAS System Builder Resource Guide: System builders info on the SCSI to SAS transition
- Podcast: The rise of video and the best practices for media storage
- SCSI Inflection Point: The New Era of Serial Attached SCSI
- Industry Transitions and Small Form Factor Training: Take the 15 minute course and learn more about SAS.
- Benefits of SAS to Tier 2
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