Seagate ST9500530NS Constellation™ Datasheet - Page 1

Data Sheet Constellation™ 2.5-inch Tier 2/nearline drive with the lowest enterprise power usage 500 GB and 160 GB • 7200 RPM • SAS 6Gb/s, SAS 3Gb/s, SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s Key Advantages • Industry's first 2.5-inch, 15-mm enterprise-class nearline drive for dense, space-constrained data centers • 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 • The industry's highest-reliability 7200-RPM drive, designed for 24x7 operation • Best-in-class rotational vibration tolerance ensures unrivalled performance in high spindle-density applications, and multi-drive firmware maximizes system availability. • 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. • Government-grade Self-Encrypting Drive security available on SAS models. Best-Fit Applications • Storage-hungry business applications • Storage area networks (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) • Maximum-capacity servers and blade servers • Rich media content storage-audio, video, image • Reference and compliance data storage • Enterprise backup and restore-D2D, virtual tape • Collaboration-email, messaging • Infrastructure-Web, print, file