Seagate Announces Demo of 12 Gb/s Solid-State Drives

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Following Hitachi, Seagate also confirmed that it will be showcasing 12Gb/s SSDs at the SCSI Trade Association’s Technical Showcase on May 9.

According to a press release, Seagate will have its Pulsar.2 enterprise SSDs with a 12Gb/s SAS on display. The company said that the devices target cloud services and other enterprise applications "throughout all tiers of data storage." Seagate stressed that the interface will be initially integrated with SSDs to take advantage of "the high performance benefits of SSDs", but the technology is also compatible for use in higher-capacity enterprise hard drives. There was no announcement when 12 Gb/s HDDs will become available, but this seems to be a matter of when, not if.

Seagate noted that its 12 Gb/s implementation is "fully compatible with controllers and other technologies from PMC-Sierra and LSI." The company expects the 12Gb/s SAS standard to be finalized by the end of this year. First drives will be available sometime in 2013, while volume availability is predicted for H2 2013.

HGST announced last week that it will be demonstrating 12 Gb/s drives at the SCSI Trade Association’s Technical Showcase.

Douglas Perry
25 Comments Comment from the forums
  • CaedenV
    holy cow! 2 years; That has got to be the shortest lived interconnect lifespan ever created.
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  • AndrewK1
    And I thought my Vertex 3 was good...
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  • Marco925
    9365895 said:
    holy cow! 2 years; That has got to be the shortest lived interconnect lifespan ever created.

    What are you talking about? SAS 2.0 (6gbps) was introduced in 2009. by the time this is released it'll be 4 years.

    Which is roughly the same lifespan as SAS 1.0 (3gbps)
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  • pedro_mann
    So do we get a jump in SATA speed as well, as an offshoot?
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  • dayum!
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  • frostyfireball
    At the rate SSDs are improving, might aswell skip SAS and SATA 12Gb/s and go straight up to 18 or 24Gb/s.
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  • wigglerthefish
    Hmm the speeds should be up enough for when PCM memory hits the consumer market, yes?
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  • capt_taco
    That's really impressive, but at the same time ... I'll be interested in SSDs at 3GB/s, 6GB/s or 12 GB/s at exactly the same time the price comes down by about two-thirds.
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  • andy_newton
    In mere 3 years, the seagate will die, just like 7200.11 and 7200.12 barracudas.
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  • blazorthon
    andy_newtonIn mere 3 years, the seagate will die, just like 7200.11 and 7200.12 barracudas.
    Do you have any information, besides that two almost completely unrelated devices failed, to support your claim?
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