Seagate ST9500530NS Constellation™ Datasheet

Constellation

™

2.5-inch Tier 2/nearline drive

with the lowest enterprise power usage

Data Sheet

500 GB and 160 GB

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7200 RPM

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SAS 6Gb/s,

SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s

Key Advantages

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Industry’s first 2.5-inch, 15-mm enterprise-class nearline drive for dense,

space-constrained data centers

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Lowest operating power and enhanced PowerChoice

™

host-selectable

power options for unprecedented power savings (up to 54 percent—as low

as 1.1 W) during slow or idle periods

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The industry’s highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7

operation

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Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance

in high spindle-density applications, and multi-drive firmware maximizes

system availability.

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Choose SAS for the seamless Tier 2 enterprise experience, with improved

data integrity. SAS 2.0 enables faster data access (6Gb/s) and larger

topologies over greater distances, increasing system scalability, data

throughput and connectivity.

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Government-grade Self-Encrypting Drive security available on SAS

models.

Best-Fit Applications

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Storage-hungry business applications

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Storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS)

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Maximum-capacity servers and blade servers

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Rich media content storage—audio, video, image

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Reference and compliance data storage

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Enterprise backup and restore—D2D, virtual tape

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Collaboration—email, messaging

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Infrastructure—Web, print, file