Seagate ST9300503SS Internal Hard Drive Data Storage

This third-generation Savvio® drive gives you more than twice the number of drives over 3.5-inch products within the same rack configuration, and delivers a staggering 60 percent system-level performance increase. The 2.5-inch footprint enables the lowest power profile of any Tier-1 mission-critical drive.

- Seagate® PowerTrim™ technology dynamically reduces power
- 75% power savings over comparable 3.5-inch 300-GB capacity drives
- 70% smaller size over 3.5-inch drives reduces overall system cooling costs
- 40% reduction in $/IOPS over comparable 3.5-inch drives
- 60% improvement in system-level performance over 3.5-inch 15K drives
- Third-generation 2.5-inch 10K-RPM enterprise drive with proven reliability
- Supports 6-Gb/s transfer rates and SAS 2.0 feature set
- Delivers on Seagate Unified Storage architecture strategy to converge best of-breed technologies (Serial Attached SCSI and small form factor) to enable powerful, yet simple external storage and internal server storage solutions that strengthen business efficiencies while cutting TCO and boosting ROI.

Resources:
- Savvio 10K.3 Product Overview
- Savvio 10K.3 Data Sheet
- Blog: The Storage Effect
- Seagate Announces New Cheetah® Hard Drives Engineered To Help Businesses Compete And Thrive In A Challenging Economy
- Self-Encrypting Drives for Servers, NAS, and SAN Arrays
- Storage Strategies for Server Virtualization
- Inflection Point – The New Era of Serial Attached SCSI
- Enterprise-Optimized 6Gb/s SAS Rivals Fibre Channel Performance and Scalability at Lower Cost
- Savvio 10K.3 SAS Product Manual.